But for two potentially life-changing events, businessman Matt Ames is one of the last people you would expect to have sleepless nights.
Last month, a day trip to the casino tables of Macau ended with the Sky Shuttle helicopter in which he was a passenger ditching in Victoria Harbour.
After that, as a tonic, the 35-year-old Londoner took his wife, four young children and their nanny to Mustique, an exclusive private island in the Caribbean.
The island - which boasts royalty, business tycoons and celebrities among its visitors - is hard to beat.
But just as Ames thought the sun-kissed beaches and Carribean charms of Mustique had done their work in helping exorcise the memories of his Hong Kong drama, fate brought them flooding back.
Ames and his family planned to leave their Caribbean hideaway on a private charter flight to connect to a flight to London.