From The Other McCain - TNFlyGirl as a Metaphor
Tragedies can be instructive, if you pay attention, and the death of Jenny Blalock, a/k/a “TNFlyGirl,” could be a useful lesson in many ways. Blalock was a 44-year-old University of Tennessee graduate and successful businesswoman, founder of Luxe Homes and Design.
Jenny Blalock owned a $100K Beechcraft Debonair, an airplane. She crashed on 7 December, probably due to not knowing how to properly use the autopilot that came with the plane. She got some instruction, none of it was apparently very good.
Click thru for a link to Juan Browne's video at Blancliro that discusses the crash. I do like Juan Browne's videos, even when the topics are tough, like a crash that killed a woman and her father.
Hindsight is 20/20, of course, and one doesn’t wish to speak ill of the dead, but the element of hubris involved here cannot be ignored. People who are intelligent, competent and successful — which is certainly an apt description of Jenny Blalock — are not immune to the temptation of thinking that, because they know what they’re doing in their regular daily life, they will automatically be competent in whatever new endeavor they may undertake. A successful businesswoman becoming a flight student in her 40s may have had difficulty accepting the fact that she didn’t know what she was doing. Her business expertise did not translate to automatic competence in the cockpit. She expects to succeed, and is frustrated by any failure, e.g., “Why isn’t this autopilot working?”
There is a reflection on how this lesson can be applied to other people. RTWT.
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