“They can’t go anywhere without me and I wasn’t going anywhere without you."

Hat tip to HotAir.com    
                                 
                                                         

Dickinson’s wife Nancy wrote about the incident at her blog:

The pilot held the plane that was supposed to take off at 11:50 until 12:02 when my husband got there.
As my husband walked down the Jetway with the pilot, he said, “I can’t thank you enough for this.”
The pilot responded with, “They can’t go anywhere without me and I wasn’t going anywhere without you. Now relax. We’ll get you there. And again, I’m so sorry.”
My husband was able to take his first deep breath of the day.