33 Quotes by George Black

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.