Message of the Day - The Miraculous is not always so miraculous

Good Morning,

 

Yesterday I saw and read in the news about the airliner which lost both of its engines to a bird strike shortly after takeoff and had to make an emergency landing in the Hudson River. You sure don’t hear too many stories like that, thankfully.

 

Everyone on the airplane survived, and the airplane itself is still relatively intact, and according to this morning’s new report, is still floating on the Hudson River. The New Yorker’s reading this may want to get some pictures.

 

It seems miraculous that after take off, and with no engines, the pilot was able to crash land with no loss of life and minimal injury to everyone onboard. We often hear of similar crashes and expect there to be a total or near total loss of life.

 

How did this happen? From news reports, it was the quick thinking response of the crew with the help of the control tower. It was as if this were an exercise for which they had some form of training for.

 

Wait a minute. Very few airplanes crash, so few that most pilots will never experience anything like this during their entire careers. In fact, they are more likely to be injured driving home in their car after a day’s work. So why train for something that may never happen? There appear to be more logical things to train for, which the pilots will encounter more often. Because we never know what may happen to us, in whatever we do. Having some form of training, and thus experience, in handing oddball and difficult situations gives us resources to pull on to handle these difficult situations.

 

Training for the unknown is often jeered at or written off as something unwarranted or unnecessary, especially during tough economic times.

 

As we see today, training for critical situations like this has saved the lives of everyone on that airplane.

 

Practice makes perfect, practicing what to do in times of crisis can give you the tools to make a No-Win situation come out miraculously well. While there are no guarantees, I would rather have more tools in my tool kit than less.

 

Practice for the unexpected and maybe you may see a miraculous outcome.

 

Enjoy!

 

 

 

Sanford Berenberg

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