Every once in a while we come across such "miraculous", "feel-good" news items, and all too often upon closer inspection we can't help feeling we are being duped and cajoled–we realize the story had to have been scripted.

Facts in such stories are always hazy (BTW we can know very easily whether five or twelve hours elapsed between a crash and a rescue); and survivors never remember anything useful (perhaps so as not to get tripped up in contradictory statements).

Sadly, I don't imagine many engineers, or for that matter anybody with a science-based education, will be eager to swallow this one hook, line and sinker.

More likely, they will be wondering whether there Is a dog being wagged, and what that dog might be. And, of course, they will be keeping a jaundiced eye out for footage of 152 bodies being retrieved from depths of the Indian Ocean.

As for this: "One thing child psychologists advise is never lie to a child" Parents lie to kids all the time. It's a requirement.

I would never lie to a child about their parent having died. Bahia probably already knows and she was merely seeking confirmation.

I'm sure some kindhearted Nurse is going to "accidentally" let it slip soon.

Cindy..Ga.

The Deity was apparently not there for the other 152 people on board.