27 Quotes by Robert Francis

Fuel systems are something that's pretty key for that part of the aircraft, so the systems group wants to focus in on that,

We're primarily still concerned with recovering bodies, and we hope we find them in that big section of fuselage, but don't everybody think that this is going to happen from today until tomorrow because we still could have a bit of time ahead of us,

I said what I have been saying -- that there is no question in anybody's mind, nor has there been, what the priority was,

That's a truly remarkable piece of film. This piece of film will now allow the NTSB to prioritize, a little bit, what they're looking for in terms of the wreckage.

When I see all these assumptions, I get a little twitchy.

The priority that we give to the recovery of the victims is probably marginally delaying our finding out what happened to cause this catastrophe,

perhaps as a result of the country pulling together and young people focusing on family and community values.

This doesn't mean the trace elements we found were caused by the training exercise, ... We're just saying it could be the chemical found.

It runs on a cycle of a half an hour, ... Given what happened. It is unlikely we will be getting voice information from the (cockpit voice recorder).