San Francisco Reminder

Painful Reminder 
in San Francisco

 San Francisco is supposed to be the place for earthquakes, right?  Well, that plane crash the other day gets more disturbing as the facts are revealed.  The sheer carelessness with human lives is bitterly appalling. 

 —foremost because two lives were lost.  Hold that consolation because more could have perished.  One life is enough.  Then there is the reason for the crash-- y pilot(s) errors.  What in the world was a pilot with 43 hours of cockpit experience doing landing that 777 jumbo jet in a difficult airport?  Where were the senior officers in guiding him into that landing while the tower screamed that the plane was too low, too slow?  Perhaps we have all heard by now that there is great suspicion that one person died after being run over by an emergency vehicle speeding to the rescue.  Our pain deepens from multiple levels of errors.  There is no excuse for the lack of professionalism when human lives are at stake. 

Tragically, even when the best are in the cockpit for any activity, mistakes are made and lives are lost.  

Alas, oh noble one created to fly with angels,

And dive like eagles masters of the sky, until

Once again we step off the edge of the world

And remember who we are in endless error hurled,

No mistake at our birth, only the forgetting…

Who is really God and how we fly.