Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"You can't keep your passengers on the plane for 9 1/2 hours. They kept saying 'half an hour more, 45 minutes more.' But by the time it got to hour six, we were pretty much accepting that we weren't going to go ... At least in the terminal, you can get up and walk around."

Source: Rahul Chandran, a passenger on a Cathay Pacific Airways flight that was stranded on the tarmac at New York's Kennedy International Airport for over nine hours early Saturday morning. Pilots at JFK blamed several such incidents on a shortage of deicing fluid at the airport, which forced planes to stay on the ground due to safety concerns.

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