There are no accidents, everything is planned.

There are old pilots and there are bold pilots', goes the saying, 'there are no old bold pilots'. Hal never qualified as old. He'd survived his fuel tank blunder; his next mistake killed him.
In the years that followed, other pilot friends and acquaintances were killed in flying accidents. We were never ready; the news always shocked. Whether we learned from these shocks is doubtful; every pilot is certain that Death will never find him.

After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.

You know, there's so many accidents where drivers fall asleep and crash. I sure don't want that to happen. I have a great family at home.

We didn't get any major accidents that backed up traffic for miles or anything like that. We couldn't have scripted it better.

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.