Chris Hadfield Quotes

If a natural disaster like a flock of birds or a bolt of lightning causes a plane's engines to fail, you know what should be expected? That the pilot will keep his or her wits about them and do their best to save each and every soul on board. That's precisely what Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger and the rest of his crew did.

I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever even request permission to do that.

NASA trains you to assess emergency situations and react in a way to keep yourself and everyone else safe.

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!

I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.

I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.

They say any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Anything you say before a pandemic occurs sounds alarmist; anything you say after it occurs is inadequate.

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinated to that.

If we announced threats [to airlines and flights] as we received them, we would be catering to the terrorists' goals.

People put themselves in difficult situations in lots of different areas. What you count on is people taking every precaution. The aerospace industry is unique in this aspect because a thousandths-of-an-inch mistake can cause spectacular failures.

I never did get hit, and neither did any of the leaders that I flew wing for.

Dwelling on an engine failure for a pilot as he rolls down the runway is NOT what he should be thinking about - it's obtaining a smooth liftoff! But in the back of his mind, he knows exactly what to do (or pretty much) and in many cases, if he's alone in the fighter aircraft, he has to leave that aircraft in an ejection seat in a big hurry!

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

Flying small airplanes is not like being on airlines.

Over the years, I've been involved in many business crises. I qualify this, since my crises have never involved life and death or the survival of the human race. But they are still crises.

As astronauts know better than anyone else, risks, incidents, and mishaps are inevitable in the development of any high-performance vehicle. The emergence of supersonic flight during the 1940s and of the Century Series of fighters in the 1950s came with the loss of several test pilots. Still, it was a glorious time.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

I had never been so challenged in an airplane that I doubted the outcome.

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

We know that terrorism is going to happen in the future, and we need to be prepared for it.

As a military pilot and a test pilot, handling unusual situations and aircraft malfunctions was part of the business.

State and local governments in New Jersey are a critical line of defense in the effort to respond to COVID-19.

You can be sure that Judicial Watch is investigating and monitoring the responses of our government to the coronavirus threat.