Seconds to Disaster Quotes

“A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of equipment problems at O’Hare, you can't get there at all.” Dave Barry”
― Glenn Meade, Seconds to Disaster

“Because aircraft spares are incredibly expensive, and in the case of older aircraft hard to source, the black-market in aviation spares is highly profitable. One head of a counterfeit parts ring said she had moved on from distributing drugs to aircraft parts, simply because it was much more lucrative.”
― Glenn Meade, Seconds to Disaster

“I wonder how many European passengers know that the aviation authorities say that passenger and crew health on board public transport airplanes is of no concern to them?”
― Glenn Meade, Seconds to Disaster

“Each and every airline is left to decide what is best for our children’s safety, and the result should leave the public in no doubt that safety is not the main priority of many airlines. If it was, every child would have a safe and secure seat.”
― Glenn Meade, Seconds to Disaster

“the FAA, has a list of zones or states which are “unapproved.” Airlines from those areas or states are forbidden from entering US airspace but, incredibly, the FAA will not specify the airlines, which is not much use to you, the fare-paying passenger, as you plan your travel abroad. The European agency, however, regularly updates the list and tells you outright the names of the companies they say are not up to standard.”
― Glenn Meade, Seconds to Disaster

“You, the passenger, sometimes fly with rookie pilots who are paying for the privilege of sitting in that seat.”
― Glenn Meade, Seconds to Disaster

“there is currently no simulator software for landing on water, and no real life training scenario in how to ditch a plane. To be fair, it would be a difficult situation to reproduce.”
― Glenn Meade, Seconds to Disaster

“contrary to belief, airline pilots, unlike some helicopter pilots, do not practice ditching in water.”
― Glenn Meade, Seconds to Disaster

“In the words of one security expert, Johannes Beck, “There are always cracks in a suit of armor. A terrorist only has to succeed once but security or counter-terrorist agencies whose task it is to prevent the terrorists have to succeed all the time.”
― Glenn Meade, Seconds to Disaster

“It’s also not unknown for junior co-pilots of prime low fares carriers to sleep overnight in cars between duties.”
― Glenn Meade, Seconds to Disaster

“there are pilots flying in the US whose salaries are so low they qualify for food stamps; they live in crash pads, time-sharing bunks with other crews because they cannot afford a place of their own.”
― Glenn Meade, Seconds to Disaster

“each and all of our lives are put at increasing risk daily when we fly and for one reason only. The aggressive pursuit of profit—and the erosion of safety standards caused by that same relentless pursuit.”
― Glenn Meade, Seconds to Disaster

“the last decade can be regarded as “the lost decade” because no improvements in flight safety matters have been made in that period.”
― Glenn Meade, Seconds to Disaster

“children not allocated their own seat do not appear in listed victim numbers in airline crash statistics.”
― Glenn Meade, Seconds to Disaster

“disregarding maintenance schedules and failing to adhere to regulators and manufacturers regulations are other surreptitious ways of saving money. ”
― Glenn Meade, Seconds to Disaster

“Aircraft don’t typically fall out of the sky.”
― Glenn Meade, Seconds to Disaster