Through simulations, they determine that Sully could have made it back to one of two airports. They question Sully, insinuating that he may have made the wrong decision to land in the Hudson, despite the fact that the incident was casualty-free. Portrayed by Mike O’Malley and Anna Gunn, among others, the group seems to operate more as prosecutors as opposed to investigators.
The ConflictĪfter seeing Sully, I was scrolling through a few articles about it and noticed some that expressed the NTSB’s objections to their portrayal in the film.
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The scene feels more righteous at this point because we now know that his full praise is deserved. It’s also thematically significant that the unbroken scene isn’t shown until the end, because at this point the full scope of it has been revealed – not only have we gained more of a sense of the character of Sully, but we also see that the choice he made was not only admirable but actually the only one that could have resulted in the best possible outcome. Such an aspect is part of what bothered me about the similar Flight because that film began with the tense, nail-biting airline crash, almost everything else that followed was inevitably going to feel slight in comparison. The entirety of those 208 seconds in the air, from takeoff to landing, are not actually shown until the last few minutes of the film. Like an experienced poker player with a surefire winning hand, Eastwood was smart to slow-play the actual incident itself, not revealing what is likely the most exciting part of the film right from the start.
Still more clips focus on Sully’s first interest in flying planes as a kid, and another with an avoided incident while flying a jet. Even when flashing back, only brief clips are shown at a time for instance, one flashback focuses on the time leading up to takeoff and to hitting the birds in midair, while another is an extended sequence of the water rescue. It was an interesting choice by director Clint Eastwood to not start Sully with the actual plane incident, and instead begin in the days that followed. Flashes of the actual incident are shown in-between these hearings, slowly painting a picture of what actually happened during those 208 seconds in the air. Much of Sully focuses on the immediate aftermath of the incident, when Captain Sully and First Officer Jeffrey Skiles ( Aaron Eckhart) are being investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to determine if the emergency water landing was warranted under the circumstances, or if, alternatively, the plane would have been able to safely make it back to an airport. Nearby boats rescued the passengers and crew after the landing, and, miraculously, everyone on board survived.
With limited time to return to a nearby airport, Captain Sully (played by Tom Hanks) was forced to make an emergency water landing in the Hudson River. The birds subsequently got caught in both engines, resulting in complete loss of thrusting power for the aircraft. Most of us know the story already, so I’ll sum it up briefly: Sully focuses on an incident back in January of 2009 when a commercial airline from NYC with a destination of Charlotte, North Carolina crashed into a large flock of birds shortly after takeoff. I am pleased to say that my predictions were wrong. Though Sully doesn’t push too far outside the boundaries of its genre, it still manages to be a subtle, understated representation of a very grandiose achievement. Predicting this, I was sure that the film based on the incident would be an overly sentimental, hyper-embellished portrayal (as many based-on-a-true-story Hollywood productions are). With such a remarkable story, it really was only a matter of time before Hollywood would get their hands on it. It was one of the first times I had heard of something like this happening, and I would say that most of America, if not the world, was equally spellbound. I still fondly remember the day that was subsequently christened the “Miracle on the Hudson”, when it was discovered that a plane successfully landed on the Hudson River after an incident in the air when both engines were destroyed.
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