Airport 1975 (1974)

George Kennedy: Joe Patroni

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• Oringer : Is there much damage?

  Joe Patroni : No, not much, theres just a hole where the pilots usually sit.

• Joe Patroni : Y'know, sometimes the public's right to know gives me a huge pain in the ass!

• Joe Patroni : There she is. She's flying it! She's flying it herself!

  Alan Murdock : Climb baby, climb.

• Joe Patroni : [taking a phone call in Salt Lake City]  Yeah? Your information is correct, Mr. Purcell, but we're clearing everything out of our Los Angeles office. You can understand that our concern here is for the safety of those people. Excuse me.

  Alan Murdock : Who's that?

  Joe Patroni : A guy named Purcell. Owns a local TV station. He's sending a remote unit out.

  Alan Murdock : What the hell does he want to photograph? We don't have any bodies yet!

• Lt. Thatcher : [after hearing the plan to lower a pilot into the 747 cockpit from a helicopter]  If you'll excuse me for saying so, that is one hell of a stupid idea!

  Joe Patroni : Well it's all we've got!