Air Quote by Bruce Schneier

Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now…

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

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

I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and…

— Isaac Asimov

Statistically, 2012 was the safest year to travel on a plane, in the history of aviation. Not one major passenger plane crashed. It's pretty…

— Dallas Campbell

Death by plane crash scares me. I travel a lot, and when you hit turbulence, and post 9/11, that's in the back of my…

— Robert Englund

The men and women who make up a plane's crew put their lives in jeopardy each time they fly. It's our job as much…

— Dave Reichert

Aircraft are always going to be something that terrorists are interested in because you bring down an airliner, you have drawn the world's attention.

— Jack Keane

The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.

— Don DeLillo

There is a worry about a bomb being implanted in a human being and placed on an airplane. So, I think there is a…

— Dianne Feinstein

There's no doubt that we have, as we always do in the nation, reacted to the reality of 911 here in the country as…

— James M. Loy

People don't hijack planes anymore because that old system of hijacking in order to barter for a prison release or get to a different…

— Heidi Julavits

“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