US Air flight crashes into Hudson River.

[Alex]

Ok, I've long learned to accept that most people use "miracle" as a synonym for "something happened that I perceive, often incorrectly, to be highly unlikely" and not "something that happened through direct divine intervention" so I mostly ignore the widespread misuse of the word miracle.

But this quote from this morning's local news (I think it is accurate, but from menory 45 minutes ago while running on a treadmill):

Even though the landing was nothing short of a miracle, some passengers are giving credit to the pilot...

That kind of annoyed me. I would hope that ALL of the passengers are giving credit to the pilot. Or if they are primarily giving it to some deity I hope they are also telling that deity to go **** itself for crashing the plane in the first place.