Airplane Crashes Quotes:

If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

- George Carlin

topic: Funny, Air, Black, Pilots And Flying, Airplane Crashes

My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.

- Linda McCartney

topic: Mother, Hate, Home, Airplane Crashes, Plane Crashes

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

- Steven Wright

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Pilots And Flying, Aeroplanes

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.

- Richard Leakey

topic: Airplane, Years, Legs, Fieldwork, Airplane Crashes

You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.

- Mitch Albom

topic: Fall, Airplane, Thinking, Parts Of A Whole, Airplane Crashes

When you're a pilot, and you know all the ways to survive an airplane crash and how low the chances are, you feel safer.

- Chloe Grace Moretz

source: Interview with Scott Z. Burns, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 17, 2014.

topic: Airplane, Pilots, Way, Airplane Crashes

The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

source: "We Can Survive Killer Asteroids — But It Won't Be Easy". www.wired.com. April 02, 2012.

topic: Tombstone, Airplane, Asteroids, Airplane Crashes

When I saw that show Lost I learned something. Other than one sort of big dude if you're in an airplane crash only models survive. So you know sit next to somebody pretty, but anyhow.

- Billy Bob Thornton

topic: Airplane, Next, Saws, Airplane Crashes

The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.

- Bobby Jones

topic: Airplane, Golf, Differences, Car Crash, Airplane Crashes

Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way.

- Mary Roach

source: Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.125, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Airplane, Secret, Survival, Evacuation, Cadavers

Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.

- Norman Ralph Augustine

topic: Airplane, Years, Law, Airplane Crashes, Takeoff