I fly a lot and it was interesting to hear about what someone thought about when he realized his plane was going to crash and he’d die. The three things he learned are congruent with Jewish thought. It made me think about how we really don’t know when our time is up.
‘Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. What went through his mind as the doomed plane went down? At TED, he tells his story publicly for the first time.
It’s a five minute video:
http://www.ted.com/talks/ric_elias.html
