8 Quotes by John Nance

The FAA and others are going to have to take a hard look at this. I'm worried. Three times is too many.

Because of the physiology of this airplane, there is nothing essentially dangerous about this gear door flapping in the breeze, other than the fact that it is a distraction and creates a need for an immediate return.

The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss

The bottom line is that a nose gear problem is not that big of a deal.

You put something like that directly into the wind at such an angle and it's going to fail. In the process of failing, instead of just coming off the airplane, it pulled the tail up and pulled the nose down.

There was no hurry to get the plane on the ground.

They did a textbook job. It went exactly according to the book.

They look terrible and very frightening if you're in the airplane, but in fact it's a very small problem.