Ellen Ochoa Quotes

People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane.

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?

No aeroplane you've ever gotten into had less than thousands of flights before they took their first passenger. Because vehicles are unsafe at first.

I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.

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.

If your oxygen mask drops down, it's time to take a breather!

I've done some luxury flying, which is brilliant. It has only happened once or twice, but it was nice because flying is the worst part of the holiday. But then again, if the plane crashes, you're still dead. For that much money I'd want a little capsule that whizzed me off to safety if it was going to crash.

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

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

Scissors, screwdrivers and the like pose an unacceptable risk to flight crews as well passengers.

I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.

Constituent demands must take a back seat to the safety of ... constituents as a whole.

We are much safer in the United States, but not yet safe.

This is a people-centric system. Planes are guided and controlled by people. We will not compromise on safety.

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.

The safety of the flying public should not be for sale. Handing air traffic control over to a private entity partly governed by the airlines is both a risk and liability we can't afford to take.

In racing, you want to win - there are no rules, and you can do whatever you want. Flying a plane is the opposite: you respect rules and fly to the rules. You can't possibly compare the two.

Cairo has flights into JFK, and they're going to open another one at Dulles... As long as we have flights coming directly to the United States, I think it's putting Americans at risk.

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

Safety is always a paramount concern for us. We are always engaged with the studios and with what better structures can be done.

Obviously, for safety reasons, there's some stuff I can't do, but fighting is more than just about nailing the moves accurately, to sort of pull off the stunt sequence. It's also about bringing emotion to it and character.

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

My laboratory and my obsession is about safety and building/engineering safety. It's not just a matter of saying we want the world to be safer; we have to create technology.