Donn Walker Quotations

Shortly after the plane took off, the pilot discovered that he may have a landing gear problem.

Our understanding was that this was an emergency landing due to engine trouble.

Our policy is to let each resort determine its own smoking policy.

This will be a much more powerful set of eyes for controllers to see things that now can't be seen and to identify specifically what they are.

When you live in the second largest city in the country, there is going to be a lot of aircraft and people have to understand that. Cities are noisy places, whether it's noise coming from the ground or in the air. I have helicopters flying over my home but that is the price I pay for living in the Hollywood Hills. That is the price I pay for living in Los Angeles.

We want to do it, but we don't have a timeline.

We have to do what is right for the traveling public.

This is serious. Anytime an airport is noncompliant, it couldn't be more serious.

This is a case where two controllers made mistakes and now they're trying to blame the FAA.

It's not uncommon for aircraft to have problems with their landing gear. This isn't unique to this particular aircraft.

That is why Walt Disney World, at this time, has no plans to implement a no-smoking policy for their hotels. We let each resort set its smoking policy, based on a number of factors, one of which is guest demand.

They were more than 100 feet apart, we don't know how much more. The Air Canada jet had already finished crossing the runway when the America West jet flew over the runway at about 100 feet.

Aircraft do have landing gear problems. What is extremely rare is when you have television cameras aimed at the plane ... there were a lot of people in our office that were really stunned about how perfect that landing looked.