George Black Quotations

One of the reasons for having two engines is so you can have two almost totally independent systems -- separate fuel feeds, separate ignition systems -- just as kind of a backup, ... So the chances of two of them failing simultaneously makes us very curious about the cause.

I don't know that there's anything that is clear one way or another as a result of (Monday).

He was cooperative, ... We were thankful for that.

It appears to be some sort of aerodynamic effect

Last November, an engine was removed from another airplane (and was) put through some degree of maintenance at Delta. This had to do with an oil leak on the front bearing, which is at the very front end of the engine.

Some of them literally walked away from here and checked into a hotel room. So we are now trying to find everyone and coordinate the manifest, which the coroner has, with the people we have in hotel rooms or who are in hospitals.

It is broken in half, at least, and there are a couple of fuselage fractures.

The area of failure was part of that work,

We'll be looking at what weather information they had been given and then very carefully at the Doppler radar tapes and things of that nature from the area. We'll be looking at what the weather actually was and what the crew thought it was.

We'll try to compare what has been observed (Monday) with these two time-lines to see what's possible and what's impossible based on that information. That's really the only thing we can do.

We have a large number of survivors here.

Those are facts and there has been no analysis done on any of this.

We think we've got a system that will work and we'll try to get it as polished as we can.

This seriously hampers the investigation. Let's face it. We're now reduced on this accident to having only radar data and whatever information we can glean from that (and) eyewitness statements.

There is relatively little damage to the propellers. And this of course would imply and back up the pilots' report of losing power on both engines.

There is relatively little damage to the propellers, ... And this of course would imply and back up the pilots' report of losing power on both engines.

The operations group will be interviewing the crew this afternoon. I understand that he saw some misalignment in the track that caused him to put his brakes on.

There could be ... We're looking into that.

The recording obtained from the accident CVR was completely blank, with no conversations or aircraft noise heard on any of the four channels.

We just felt the challenge mechanism was a better and more efficient way to go and to preserve the integrity of the game. It's just a modest difference in philosophy.

Twice during the approach a pilot commented that he had lost sight of the runway, ... There was heavy rain reported, wind shear alertadvisories and the runway visual range was reported to be 1,600 feet.

is one of the possibilities for a dual engine failure.

After listening to the tape we found that there was no mention of engine problems or a failure or emergency until the second approach.

After listening to the (air controller's) tape we found that there was no mention of engine problems or a failure or emergency until the second approach.

This is not a cause -- it might have possibly been a prevention.

There's a considerable amount of the airplane still left. The lighter-weight aluminum components did melt during the fire, but the structure is still there and the engines and the center wing section are still pretty well intact, so we think we can get some information from that.

There's a considerable amount of the airplane still left, ... The lighter-weight aluminum components did melt during the fire, but the structure is still there and the engines and the center wing section are still pretty well intact, so we think we can get some information from that.

It was a vicious fire. There's really not too much left.

It sounded like a better copy (than the FAA's) ... It sounded to me like a clear tape,

Not only are words important on a tape but sounds are important, ... Quite often spectral analysis of noises or other sorts of clunks and clinks can be identified by members of the cockpit voice recording group.

I'm not going to speculate about what this means.

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