Pilot prays, lands at Jesus sign
Pastor Dale Morgan
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*Pilot prays, lands at Jesus sign*
By staff writers
May 21, 2008 10:05am
Marlborough Express
TWO men prayed for divine intervention when their microlight ran out of
fuel mid-flight and received it when they landed safely next to a "Jesus
is Lord" sign.
New Zealand Pilot Owen Wilson told his passenger Grant Stubbs, a petrol
station owner, to pray as they desperately tried to find a place to
land, the Marlborough Express reported.
Attempting to land in the hilly Pelorus Sound, at the top of the South
Island, Mr Wilson guided the microlight down for a landing.
"When you're in a microlight if you crash, you usually die. I turned to
O.B (Mr Wilson) and he said we had no fuel," Mr Stubbs said.
"I asked what we should do. He said: 'You just pray Grant."'
As the plane descended they saw they were about to land next to a sign
reading: Jesus is Lord – The Bible.
"When we saw that we started laughing," Mr Stubbs told the Marlborough
Express.
The men had landed at Tira Ora Lodge, which is run by a Christian
couple, and were greeted by the property's animals including emus,
goats, deer, wild horses and donkeys.
Mr Stubbs said he saw the irony having 200,000 litres of petrol at his
work but none with him in the sky.