The scenario is blood-chilling. The senior pilot leaves the cabin for a moment. His co-pilot locks the door and puts the aircraft into a death-spiral while his partner frantically tries to break down the door and re-take control of the plane.
It now turns out that this is what happened in the tragic demise of German-wings flight 4U 95 over the French Alps.
Plane destroyed, 150 passengers killed in a moment and thousands of relatives left numbed by grief.
What to do if you were a passenger on such a doomed aircraft?
A quick answer ( and it would have to be quick) is to call on the Lord Jesus Christ for His immediate mercy and salvation (Romans 10:17)
A flight that had a happier ending carried Ian Paisley and Jerry Fitt, both members of the Westminster parliament, from London to Belfast. Somewhere over the Irish Sea both engines flamed out.
Paisley instantly stood to his feet and in a booming voice prayed:
"Lord protect this thy servant and all who travel on this aircraft."
A few seconds after, the engines came back to life and they completed their journey in safety,
Jerry Fitt was a catholic and later remarked "I hate everything that Ian Paisley stands for, but he sure has friends in Heaven."
Think about that before you next travel by air. There are a lot of things that can go wrong and trust in God is the best insurance policy known to man.
Jubilate.
Ian
