And once we’re on the subject – I believe the popularity of hashgachah pratis stories reveals a deep lack of emunah amongst us. The need to always see “the plane that would have crashed” means our emunah is so shaky that anything “bad” that happens throws it off. It means we have to see His goodness in front of eyes to believe it.
Hashgachah Protis stories do not prove anything anyways. When the plane doesn’t crash – we say wow. when you just make the plane, and it crashes, we say “who can understand the ways of Hashem”. We were doing fine explaining, suddenly we can’t understand! Not very empirical reasoning.
The point is, such stories are not evidence of anything. If you already believe, its a way of seeing Hashem’spresence in your life – and yes, you then have to be ready to take an equal lesson when the going gets rough.