“By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?” YearsLooksTermSpaceRiskDoorsDyingSafetyMilesFlyingFlightPlanesAirlinePassengersSpace ShuttleFatality Author:Burt Rutan
“But we agree with the NTSB that if we eliminated the thrust- reverser calculation, it would be an extra margin of safety. Airport capacity and airline efficiency are important, but safety is the most important thing.” IfsImportantWould BeCapacityAgreeSafetyImportant ThingsExtrasEfficiencyAirportsMarginsThrustCalculationsAirline Author:Laura Brown
“It may be annoying, but the rash of hijackings by Connecticut WASP girls surely explains the time-consuming - but still somehow completely useless - examination of my personal effects. We all have to make sacrifices for airline safety.” MayStillsGirlSacrificeEffectsSafetyUselessAnnoyingExaminationConsumingAirlineTime ConsumingConnecticutWaspsHijacking Author:Ann Coulter
“I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.” KnowsNeedsLostRiskSafetyPilotsAirplaneCeoMechanicAirlineAircraftConsiderateBe ConsiderateConsiderate And Caring Author:Gordon Bethune
“Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.” PeopleNextBuildingFailureIndustryBiggerDiedSafetySavedShipsVainPlanesCrashProbabilityAirlineSave A LifePlane CrashesAirline Industry Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“I go out of my way to stay off commuter planes. I have skipped conferences because I would not fly on marginal airlines (and because of many mishaps, I also avoided flying on ValuJet).” WaySafetyFlyingMy WayPlanesAviationConferencesAvoidedAirlineMishaps Author:Mary Schiavo
“I have flown ValuJet. ValuJet is a safe airline, as is our entire aviation system.” SafeSafetyAviationAirline Author:Federico Pena
“There is just no way that I can understand in God's green earth that an airline could undertake with its normal procedures the operation of the Space Shuttle. . . . You don't put parachutes on airliners because the margin of safety is built into the machine. The 727 airplanes we fly are proven vehicles with levels of safety and redundancy built in. The shuttle is a hand-made piece of experimental gear.” WayMadeI CanHandsEarthSpaceLevelsPiecesWalkingMoonNormalBuiltMachinesSafetyGreenOperationsVehicleAirplaneProvenProceduresMarginsGearsAirlineStar GazingParachutesGreen EarthSpace ShuttleRedundancy Author:Frank Borman