“Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been Fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that’s a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events — the oil just spilled there, the safety fence just broke there — that must also be a miracle. Just because it’s not nice doesn’t mean it’s not miraculous.”
Terry Pratchett quoted by Ask the Pilot’s Patrick Smith. Smith points out that when people survive air crashes it’s because the planes were engineered that way and the crews trained.