Air Quote by George Carlin

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

— Steven Wright

“Why don’t you make airplanes out of the same material as you make the little black boxes in the cockpit?”

— Jack McDonald Burnett

Unfortunately most accidents are preventable. Planes don't fall out of the sky unless something is wrong.

— Mary Schiavo

Airplanes don't just disappear - certainly not these days with all the powerful communication systems, radio and satellite tracking, and filmless cameras which operate…

— Mahathir Mohamad

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

How come New York gets all the cool plane crashes?

— Daniel Tosh

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

We don't talk about planes flying. We talk about them crashing.

— Tibor Kalman

With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative.We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an amazingly short…

— Donald Keyhoe

“Pressurized airplanes are a product that you never try to cut corners on, as the outcome can be catastrophic.”

— Steven Magee

Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100…

— Norman Ralph Augustine

In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought…

— Dennis Quaid