Political Quotes

“I would like to share an experience this evening and commend a group of individuals who were involved in U.S. Airways Flight 969 last evening where I was a passenger going from Pittsburgh to National Airport. It was diverted into Dulles, as many of us have heard. There was a situation where someone stood up in explicit contradiction to the words from the pilot about what was to be done under national policy. Once you are within 30 minutes of Reagan National Airport, passengers are not under any circumstances to leave their seats. Unfortunately, this individual did and headed towards what appeared to be the cockpit. I commend the air marshals who were on that flight. They responded with professionalism. They responded quickly with what appeared to be a threat to those of us who were on the flight. I commend the pilot on U.S. Airways Flight 969 who responded with professionalism. He calmed what obviously was a potentially very confusing situation and what could have been great panic. This was the result of the pilot, the flight attendants, and the crew. I would like to give my thanks and congratulations to everyone who was involved in this incident with the way they conducted themselves. I was thinking as I sat in the 11th row and the B seat that this is an example of what could happen with national law enforcement officials professionally trained to do our airline security.”