There are so many things everybody talks about that once in a while, it can turn just right. It's a matter of pure chance. It does exist and happens all the time. I remember a colleague telling me she had been thinking about me just before I called her. She thought "telepathy".....Or the Tennisman Marc Rosset who should have taken the plane that crashed after leaving JFK with the Egyptair plane that crashed, but changed his mind at the last minute.
But like Tom's post suggests, sometimes it's very hard to accept chaos or chance. That's also why people need to refere to the Allmighty, as such notion of pure luck are so hard to grasp. However, if this incident is isolated, the chance factor is much more convincing.

Raoul