Forgive my writing, and apologies that I am not a more gifted writer. However, today’s accident has given me pause to think about my own circumstance, and that of the crew and passengers aboard flight 5191.
In our clever advances of the day, we no longer acknowledge that what we do has consequences of life or death. We forget that we were designed to be fallible. We dismiss that it could be fate which befalls us in a similar manner. We deny that our abilities should ever deceive us.
Many of us as pilots saw the lure to aviation for glamour, amongst many other reasons. Perhaps some for sound technical fact, and perhaps others for the risk of the unknown. I had these and other feelings, yet when I found the brethren of aviators, I learned the true meaning of what I sought.
So, to the man fighting for his life. Be strong my brother. I hope a time will come when you may read this passage, for it was you I had in mind when I wrote it. I hope that you will have the guidance of your fellow aviators, and that you will benefit as have I from their understanding. For it is only us that truly understand.
I hope all of us take some time to think of our own hubris, and that we all say a prayer for the families dealing with such grief.
Blue skies and god bless to those that left us today.
In our clever advances of the day, we no longer acknowledge that what we do has consequences of life or death. We forget that we were designed to be fallible. We dismiss that it could be fate which befalls us in a similar manner. We deny that our abilities should ever deceive us.
Many of us as pilots saw the lure to aviation for glamour, amongst many other reasons. Perhaps some for sound technical fact, and perhaps others for the risk of the unknown. I had these and other feelings, yet when I found the brethren of aviators, I learned the true meaning of what I sought.
So, to the man fighting for his life. Be strong my brother. I hope a time will come when you may read this passage, for it was you I had in mind when I wrote it. I hope that you will have the guidance of your fellow aviators, and that you will benefit as have I from their understanding. For it is only us that truly understand.
I hope all of us take some time to think of our own hubris, and that we all say a prayer for the families dealing with such grief.
Blue skies and god bless to those that left us today.
Very nicely said. May the good Lord watch over and protect the families of such horrendice circumstances. God Bless!
