All the pilots help out when there are mechanical problems.
Witt Jr. believes his life was spared when a stranger driving an old pickup truck, coming in the opposite direction, waved his arms out the window and flagged Witt’s car to a stop on a logging road. The man warned Witt that bandits had set an ambush a few miles down the road. A stunned Witt turned his car around and said to his brother-in-law, “I think angels drive green Dodge pickups. I’ve never seen that man before.”
Wiley flirted with death in 1976 when the plane he was piloting crashed into a hillside during a mission trip. A villager pulled Wiley and his father – the only passenger – from the crushed airplane and they were rushed to a hospital. Wiley, who had third-degree burns on his left leg and a broken right knee, said the accident “almost took the flying out of me.”
But Wiley received encouragement from an unexpected visitor. As he slept in the early-morning hours following knee surgery, his father was awakened by an angel, whose presence illuminated the hospital room.
"The angel told my father to get his bible and turn to Psalms,...He ministered to my dad. He wasn't sure how long the angel stayed."
“The angel told my father to get his Bible and turn to Psalms,” Wiley says. “He ministered to my
Witt looks over a map that includes pictures of his family from many years ago.
dad. He wasn’t sure how long the angel stayed. When I woke up, my dad was weeping. He said, ‘Son, an angel told me to tell you everything is taken of. Don’t worry. You’re in God’s will. Hold up your chin and move forward.’ It tore me up. Here I was complaining. All I could do is weep and ask God to forgive me.”
Wiley purchased a new plane and returned to flying a year and a half later. It wasn’t long before God rewarded his
obedience with a front-row seat to His miracle-working hand in the outback.
