Robert Francis
Robert Francis
Robert Franciswas an American poet who lived most of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth12 August 1901
CityUpland, PA
interested looking recover situation solve team tragic
I am interested in looking ahead, not back, I'm not interested in assessing blame. We're all part of a team and we're going to solve this tragic situation and we're going to recover the victims.
When I see all these assumptions, I get a little twitchy.
cause finding happened priority recovery victims
The priority that we give to the recovery of the victims is probably marginally delaying our finding out what happened to cause this catastrophe,
certainly encourage hearing interested
I would encourage people, if they did see this happen, we certainly would be interested in hearing from them,
high pay price recover sure victims
I would also say that is not a particularly high price to pay for making sure that we recover the victims for those families.
help manage people question trying
So many people were trying to help that it was a question of how one was going to manage this, ... We've managed to get a lot done today.
allow looking piece remarkable terms truly
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.
mind nor priority question saying
I said what I have been saying -- that there is no question in anybody's mind, nor has there been, what the priority was,
focus fuel group key systems wants
Fuel systems are something that's pretty key for that part of the aircraft, so the systems group wants to focus in on that,
ahead bit concerned everybody happen hope primarily recovering section time today tomorrow until
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,
bomb evidence point
We don't have any evidence at this point of a bomb or missile,
evidence point
We have no evidence at this point that this was not an accident,
support
We're getting support from everyone to do it right, so we'll do it properly.
areas finding fruitful identified parts percent
In the most fruitful areas, they're finding that over 40 percent of the areas identified are actually parts of the airplane.