Joss Whedon Quotes

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

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 mind a bit.

I was in a plane that lost an engine flying from Dallas to England. It happened over the Newfoundland Sea, and it was dark, and they took away our drinks, and it was scary. I thought I was gonna die.

My concept is, until you absolutely know the plane is crashing, there's no reason to be afraid. All the turbulence in the world does not mean the plane is crashing. Once it's confirmed, then you can be afraid.

Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence.

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

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 as anyone's to make sure we make it as safe as possible up there for them.

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.

It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then.

I suddenly felt the plane go down. I thought we were going to die. I was really scared. I was sitting with my head in my hands.

One mistake followed the other, and the price was in human lives.

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

A little bomb like that can make us all disappear

The sheer number of facts that are unknown about what happened when Malaysia 370 disappeared is quite staggering.

I fly an aeroplane, and I think a lot about how much I do not want ever to run into an optimistic air traffic controller. I just don't. I want a guy down there who's just waiting for the worst crash possible and petrified that it's going to happen on his watch. And then I feel safe flying into his territory.

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.

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.

You and your group of nerds fall into a pit and it's full of dynamite and you blow up. The End.

Okay, we're going to land somewhere safely, don't worry.

You know what, I distinctly remember my boat blew up and I was killed!

When the afterburner lights, I haven't got 5,000 horsepower. I've got 10,000 horsepower, and possibly the biggest accident you've ever seen in your life.

I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.

The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.