Leonard L. Boswell: “I rise very enthusiastically supportive of what is going on here today. I appreciate what is going on here today. I…”

“I rise very enthusiastically supportive of what is going on here today. I appreciate what is going on here today. I, like many others in this body, am a current commercial pilot, and I suppose that by being so I am a little more critical at times of those that man the cockpits of the airplane and just kind of look them over without even thinking about it too much. I submit that the people that fly our airliners, and I want to emphasize the airliners, that carry many, many what people in the business call SOBs, we call them 'souls on board,' we are concerned about their safety. That has been in the vernacular for a long time, 'souls on board.' How many souls are on board? You know, there may be 100, there may be 200, there may be 300, and it is an important thing, their safety. The pilots come on in a briefing and they will tell you their main purpose is a safe arrival at the destination. So they are high-quality people, very high-quality people we can have a lot of confidence in.”