US Airways Flight Crash: Fate or Destiny?
By powermannx
@powermannx (450)
United States
January 15, 2009 3:56pm CST
A US Airways Air-Bus 820 leaves for Charlotte North Carolina, a flock of seagulls clog the engines, the plane crashes into the Hudson River, all passengers survive, was this fate or destiny?
4 responses
@craftcatcher (3699)
• United States
15 Jan 09
I'll vote for neither one. I call it a terrible accident with a happy outcome. Why does it have to be fate or destiny, why can't it be just what it is? If all actions are guided by some pre-ordained outcome doesn't that make life sort of worthless and pointless? Sort of like getting halfway through a great murder mystery novel and then someone tells you who committed the murder and how they did it. Takes all the fun out reading the rest of it. I would like to think that my life and what happens in it are more than a grandiose game of Barbie dolls. 
@powermannx (450)
• United States
16 Jan 09
Very interesting point you make. Was it fate or destiny for some people that decided to take off from work one the day of September 2001?
@craftcatcher (3699)
• United States
16 Jan 09
I wouldn't say anything different than I said before. If 9/11 hadn't happened they still would have taken the day off for the same reason they did take that day off. I don't believe in fate or destiny. Whatever happens in your life happens just as everything does, because of causal factors, not from something that was pre-ordained by some supernatural decision maker who already knows the outcome.
@redhotpogo (4401)
• United States
15 Jan 09
fate and destiny are different? um.... I guess destiny sounds cooler then. Yeah of course it was bound to happen. Seagulls taking off at a certain time, plane arrives there at a certain time. Nothing you can really do to stop it. Our weather people can't even get the weather right most of the time, there's no way we can tell if there's going to be geese flying in the area. I'm wondering though why they haven't put guards on the engines yet. Am I the only one wondering that? Maybe I'm just an idiot.
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@cptthunder09 (51)
• United States
19 Oct 09
i did not know there was a difference between fate and destiny but that is quite extraordinary for everyone to survive such a crash
