Captain Icoze Mafella, a Christian airline pilot, told a Jakarta church that he was moved by the Holy Spirit to depart from the Palu airport early on September 28, the day Indonesia was struck by an earthquake and tsunami.
Mafella recalled feeling uneasy that day, so he decided to sing worship songs in the cockpit to calm his nerves. He said, “Usually I only hummed, but that day I wanted to praise the Lord as best I could.”
He recalled that his Muslim co-pilot joked with him saying, “I think you should make a CD of worship songs.”
As the pilots began to descend their incoming flight from Ujung Pandang to Palu they noticed that the wind was abnormally strong. This was when Mafella said he “heard a voice in his heart” telling him to circle one more time before landing the plane.
Mafella recalled that he needed to be extra careful with the landing amid the heavy wind and he decided to recite Psalm 23 for encouragement.
Mafella and his co-pilot safely landed the plane, but Mafella still felt uneasy. He said he felt God told him that he needed to be speedy while on the ground, even encouraging him to take off earlier than scheduled. The pilot asked the crew to make their break short before the plane took off for Jakarta.
“I didn’t even leave the cockpit and requested permission from the control tower to depart three minutes ahead of…
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