There’s an extraordinary video interview with Joe Sharkey, a columnist for the New York Times, about his experience of surviving a mid-air collision over the Amazon jungle (reported here on MSNBC).

I know the interviewer, Randy Padfield, who is an occasional client of mine (he is editor of Business Jet Traveler) and he asks exactly the right questions. I also know the guys at Embraer very well - I took a similar trip to Geneva in the same type of plane last year.

I was struck by the comment at the end: “This is a reminder to me how interconnected we all really are.” I’m a pilot and, of course, I’m fascinated by the incident but it’s a bigger, deeper and more human story than just two planes colliding.