About Quote by Brendan I. Koerner

The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The…

— Brendan I. Koerner

Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the lam. These…

— Brendan I. Koerner

Since 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline . . . has really been successful, so the odds of JetBlue having…

— Gordon Bethune

In the '80's my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind…

— Richard Branson

I was engaged in what I believe to be the most thrilling industry in the world-aviation. My heart still leaps when I see a…

— William A. Patterson

“The safety gap is so large, in fact, that planes would still be safer than cars even if the threat of terrorism were unimaginably…

— Daniel Gardner

My father's an early aviator, and my first flight was with him at age two. Now, despite the fact that I got sick on…

— Buzz Aldrin

One October day in 1976, a Cuban airliner exploded over the Caribbean and crashed, killing all 73 people aboard. There should have been 74.…

— Stephen Kinzer

Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them left alive.

— Ernie Pyle

During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.

— Simon Sinek

There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris,…

— Burt Rutan

It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your…

— Steven Johnson