Peter Goelz Quotations

We remain confident that we will be able to determine a probable cause to this terrible tragedy.

Regarding some of the issues raised by Mr. Salinger in recent days, they are again a combination of falsehoods and claims that are only partially based on the truth and, when taken out of context, are completely misleading.

Some of the treatment wasn't very good. Some of it was quite natural -- that people didn't plan for this kind of tragedy. So when the tragedy occurred the response was often on an ad hoc basis, and the response often had gaps in it.

There's been a raft of these low-cost carriers in South America and Asia. The question is, what's the level of oversight of these carriers?

There's a natural hesitance on the part of the regulator to believe that its own regulations and its own oversight would be anything other than acceptable.

I'm not going to fly some fly-by-night carrier that's going to get me to the Bahamas the cheapest. If you're letting the travel agent book and you say, 'I want the lowest possible fare,' that works OK in the U.S. and Canada, but I'm not sure I'd use that in other parts of the world.

All experts, including those from Boeing, TWA, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and foreign officials... agree that there is no sign of a missile attack.

You want to hold that nose up as long as humanly possible and drop it as slowly as possible. You drop the nose and you pray the nose gear is going to hold up, which it did. Clearly this pilot did an extraordinary job.