Causes Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

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

— Mary Schiavo

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This could happen on any flight.

— Gus Grissom

Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that will kill…

— Stephen Coonts

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

— Tibor Kalman

Mistakes can occur during hostilities.

— Vladimir Putin

Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.

— A. Lee Martinez

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

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

If you can fly an airplane competently, you can fly it safely even if something does happen.

— Jessica Cox

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

— Lewis Thomas

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except…

— Brenda Lee