Macarthur Job > Quotes

“Questioned by Flavell about his campaign while in the crew room, Captain Key exploded,”
― Macarthur Job, Air Disaster 2: The Jet Age

“Indeed, leading Airbus engineer Bernard Ziegler – an evangelist for fly-by-wire – was reputed to have exclaimed on one occasion, ‘My cleaning lady could fly it!’ (He could be forgiven for being more cautious than others, too; as a French air force pilot he had flown his jet fighter under a cable car in the ski resort of Chamonix, severing the cable and killing the occupants of three cars which crashed 500ft to ground.) The”
― Macarthur Job, Air Disaster 3: Terror In The Sky

“We were ready to land, we had on our seat belts, and then I realised we had hit something,’ said one survivor, forty-five-year-old engineer Pierre Cota – who was only on the aircraft because he had missed an earlier flight after being involved in an horrific car crash on his way to the airport.”
― Macarthur Job, Air Disaster 3: Terror In The Sky