Charles R. Swindoll, in his book "Dropping Your Guard" tells of Flight 401 bound for Miami from New York City with a load of holiday passengers. As the huge aircraft approached the MiamiAirport for its landing, a light that indicates proper deployment of the landing gear failed to come on. The plane flew in a large, looping circle over the swamps of the Everglades while the cockpit crew checked out the light failure. Their question was this, had the landing gear actually not deployed or was it just the li…