Sully’s a movie about an airplane pilot who became an American hero when he saved 155 people. Sully is a fantastic showing of how an airplane pilot saved 155 passengers and crew by landing in the Hudson River rather than returning to the airport after his engines were damaged. It was directed by Clint Eastwood, with Tom Hanks playing the main character of the story, Captain Chesley Sullenberger, and Aaron Eckhart playing his co-pilot Jeff Skiles.
In the movie, Sully executes a perfect emergency landing after his engines failed when flocks of geese flew into the engines, destroying them. After miraculously landing the plane in the river, everyone on board was rescued within 24 minutes of being in the river. Even though all this happened, he was under an investigation that he could have gotten back to an airport. This investigation put his career and reputation in the balance.
In the investigation, they ran simulations with the plane to see if he could have gotten back to the airport or not. They had thought since the tests got the plane back that Sully was wrong, until he said that they should add 30 seconds to the simulation to account for human error. The simulations then had all of them crash showing that he had to land in the Hudson River because he couldn’t have gotten back with both engines destroyed after they found the damaged engine at the bottom of the river.
I liked the piece, and Tom Hanks did a fantastic job in playing Captain Sully. It was a great movie on a huge part of air flight history.