The scenes with New Yorkers staring at the low flying plane are really powerful. I know the movie barely mentions it but 9/11 was very much still on people's minds in 2009
I visited the 9/11memorial in lower Manhattan last weekend and there's still people there mourning people they've lost. Still an eerie feeling at the memorial, even over 22 years later. Pretty wild. Really something that people will never forget.
@@dylanmelotti4301 small world. I was there the weekend before. I stayed at the downtown Millennium hotel which is right across the street from the memorial. I definitely agree with you about the feeling surrounding it.
The Captain was also the last person off the aircraft, and personally searched the plane several times to make sure no one else was left before leaving it. A true hero.
You don't realize how big that river is until there's an airplane sitting in the middle of it. Thank goodness it was that big... that was a major reason it was the best place to try and land the plane safely.
The scene right after never fails to make me want to tear up when every ferry, boat and other option heads straight to it to help. People can be so good at times.
The most perfect water landing to ever be executed in an aircraft not equipped with pontoons. This event has been immortalized in flight school textbooks the world over.
@@jacobstathers8823 it would literally be the equivalent to something like getting in a head on collision without your seatbelt, being thrown 50 yards from the crash site thru the windshield, and landing safely in a truck bed filled will pillows and walking away with only scratches.
What people don’t know (unless you lived in NYC at the time) was that days earlier the Hudson was chocked full of ice blocks and ice debris for weeks as it had been such a cold winter. Truly a miracle the day or so before the river suddenly cleared of ice early. Had this crash happened any earlier I can’t imagine such a landing. The water was smooth and clear like glass that day. I had pushed my infant in their stroller stroller on the NJ side just minutes before it happened and was remarking to myself as a former rower how nice the water looked for s row. Credit to the pilots and crew. The crew especially in keeping the passengers calm and in the safety position.
That's why I love how the film included the reactions of those three random New Yorkers. You can almost hear what those people are thinking the moment they see a plane where there isn't supposed to be one... "Not again." Thank God this didn't end up a tragedy too, especially when it so easily could have.
I felt so very sad for the ATC. They start talking about pulling his blood and urine standard procedures but he has tears running down his face and thinks he just got an entire plane full of people killed in NYC. Thank God for Sully.
its honestly what hits me the hardest, the realization "water landings are almost impossible to pull off i just got a entire plane killed" its terrific my god
I tear up every time I watch this scene! The ATC kept working to find an available landing and kept looking for visuals only to be pulled off duty thinking he just lost a plane 😢😢😢😢
I can’t even imagine the switch of emotions in an instant for all those passengers……One second you’re trying to mentally prepare yourself for your possible death in just a few moments, and literally the next second the exhilaration and inner joy and relief you feel when the plane comes to a stop on the water. It’s probably a feeling that can never be explained in words. WOW!!!
Reminds me a lot of the Raymon K Hessel story. Was held at gun point, but let go as long as he promised to be enrolled in veterinarian school within 6 weeks. Raymond woke up the next morning feeling more alive than anyone you or I know.
@@DonnieDin No, sorry. I was refering to the feeling that you think or even be sure you are going to die in the next moments but coming out of the situation unharmed.
It’s amazing to think about how under credited the flights attendants are in this. Those women are heroes too. To maintain their cool and continue instructing the passengers to hopefully save their lives too
Those women are scary. I have never looked at them the same after this movie. That metallic robotic voice, all completely sincronized, as if they had prepared it. I mean obviously they had prepared it, it's just not the kind of thing you ever think is going to happen. And not the kind of thing where you say "oh yeah, everyone is a bit nervous the first time but after 5 or 6 accidents you get used to it". They are just scary
Im actually going through training for an airline as a flight attendant. And I have never respected them as much as I do now. I always knew they aren't just peanut servers, but now that I'm actually learning it. It is actually insane how much responsibility we bare. In any type of emergency, we are the first responders. Like you are literally trained to be 911. And emergency training is only a fraction of what we learn
Chesley Sullenberger, USAF pilot, airline pilot for decades, instructor on the A320 and experienced glider pilot. That skill set in that cockpit on that day borders on divine intervention.
Great movie but I wish they'd have better explained WHY a water landing is so dangerous. It's not the water temp or lack of fuselage buoyancy that's the problem. The latter would be in the middle of the ocean, which is not the case here. In a water landing the wings have to hit the water at EXACTLY the same instant or the whole plane cartwheels over.
Landing on water is like landing on concrete - there's very little give. The plane was descending at 12 ft per second - so imagine jumping off your roof and landing on your concrete sidewalk. Not fun. Now imagine that instead of your sidewalk, you just landed in the middle of a river where the water temperature is 38°. If you don't drown trying to escape the airplane with 157 other people in a panic situation, you might end up in the water anyway as the plane begins to sink. At that point, the biggest threat to your life is hypothermia - which kicks in within minutes in that kind of freezing water. Water landings are incredibly dangerous, and the fact that everyone on board survived this landing is a genuine miracle.
The angle and speed has to be absolutely perfect like you said at the end. Too fast and downward of an angle and the engines/wings can break off, fully submerging the fuselage under water. Too slow and high of a pitch with an engine failure and the plane can stall while airborne causing a drastically abrupt and uneven landing, likely catastrophic. Plus, it's not like pilots ever practice landing in water and with dozens of lives at stake.
That's why pilots now study this water landing to see how everything went right. Captain Sully was exactly the kind of man that plane needed to put it safely in the water.
There's a massive list of how not to land on water. But the list of how to land on water is much shorter... in fact its only one line... do it like Sully.
Captain Sullenberger was a flight instructor, had numerous licenses for various aircraft including Glider aircraft. Right man at the right place at the right time.
The right man, in the right place, at the right time. I don’t know if he can do it a second time, everything has to work out out perfectly, those things that he can control, and that which he can’t. I’ll never forget the passengers on the wing, what a bizarre sight. Captain Sully is memorialized and will live on long after we are all gone, and rightly so.
@@thatperformer3879 I saw Sully speak recently. The "guy" was an Army officer. He had to convince the woman to let him hold the baby because he was stronger and more likely to keep the baby from being thrown forward.
Sully truly had nerves of steel. The passengers weren’t even crying or screaming in real life - they listened to the flight attendants and remained totally calm until the plane hit the water. It was just such heroism after the terror and sadness of 9/11.
There is so much emotion portrayed in such a short clip. Does not take my degree in Aerospace Engineering to know just how incredible this feat was. Quite possibly the best pilot to have ever flown an airline.
My dad flew PBYs and even though they are designed to land on the water the set down is the hardest part, you bury a float in a swell and life suddenly isn't so good. The pilots who taught Sully likely were WW2 pilots who were trained to ditch
I liked this film, but it did the NTSB *dirty.* Here, it portrayed them as antagonistic skeptics to give the film an enemy to point at and feed the plot to extend the run time. In real life, the NTSB were the first to wholeheartedly praise Sully and co. for making the right decisions not five minutes into the investigation on the matter, and personally pointed out flaws in the aircraft design were at fault for what occurred with the birds. The events surrounding the crash could easily be repeated and lead to another similar incident -- potentially one with fatal consequences -- unless the expense was put in to fix the design for the sake of human lives. "No fear, no favor."
even true story movies have to have villians. Its like Max Baer in Cinderella man. People who know his history know he wasnt like he was portrayed in the movie but they had to make him into the bad guy
more than problems with the aircraft design the real problem was that noone thought birds could do that much damage. It was after this incident that they revised the design on every aircraft keeping into consideration the damages that could be caused by flocks of birds. Until then they had been completely underestimated.
Captain Sully gets and absolutely deserves the lion's share of the praise for this day, but every worker on that plane was a hero. The co-pilot calmly following through on instructions and maintaining an atmosphere that let him land the plane on the Hudson The flight attendants doing everything they could to keep 100+ panicking people calm enough to follow protocol- while having very little information and probably panicking themselves. They all helped saved the passengers of 1549.
Oh, and! The captains/staff of all the ferries that very quickly recovered from the shock of seeing a plane land a river and immediately changed course to pick up as many people as they could.
@@Xanthira222 while they were jumping around randomly. They didn’t really cover what went on, on the fairies. After looking forward to this movie and watching it, it’s one of the few movies that I’m literally sorry I watched. There was almost nothing redeeming about it, and because it’s full of so many falsehoods, I couldn’t even begin to know if any of those things actually happened
Capt. Sully made a textbook ditching before touchdown he brought the nose up about 9 deg. and only the tail section took the worst yet still in one piece. This is an merican hero.
Capt. Sully was probably the most experienced and competent pilots in the company. The timing was the miracle: the right man for the job just happened to be there during the dual engine bird strike.
i just watched the movie - and I can see why Sullenberger did not like it. It paints the NTSB as being out to get the Pilots when nothing could be further from the truth. The NTSB people - *_LOVED_* Sullenberger. They *_LOVED_* him. He had saved them from looking at a hangar full of dead bodies - and they absolutely *_LOVED_* him. The thing with Hollywood - is that they want to have a bad guy - and who were they going to blame? The Geese? This is like _Money Ball_ where they made the Manager the bad guy - which he did not appreciate since he had supported Bean in what he was doing. .
Not to diminish Sully, but the Airbus has a ditching mode and the aircraft actually determined it was going to be a "water landing" and assisted in pitching the nose and leveling the wings. Also, at the time flights not going over water did not need life jackets. Boeing didn't fit them as standard to their aircraft due to this unless they were going to be used to fly over the ocean in which case they would be added. Airbus fitted life jackets as standard for all passengers, which probably greatly assisted passengers staying at the surface in cold water to clamber on the wings to await rescue.
2:10 People and planes don't survive water landings because they were always unrecoverable crashes. An intentional, controlled ditching on water is extraordinarily rare.
@@lukethomas.125 I havent read the accident report on this one, but believe I heard the RAT was deployed somewhere. But he might have made it if they were still rolling back🤔Do you got a link that confirms that it didnt?
@@speedbird9313 I'm looking up the NTSB Aviation Accident Report, link here: www.ntsb.gov/investigations/accidentreports/reports/aar1003.pdf. From what is known, as soon as the birdstrike occured and both engines fail, Captain Sullenburger started the APU, which alleviated the need for the RAT to be deployed. This could be evidence that the RAT didn't deploy since the APU was running.
65 percent of people survive water landings. throughout history there has been 1146 people who experienced a water landing. Out of those 1146, 423 died, but 723 survived. AKA it's very possible
Seem to recall they recreated this scenario in flight simulators, and no pilot/plane who underwent it survived the “crash.” Had the river still had ice on it, or if the water had been any less calm than it was, this miracle landing wouldn’t have happened. Still amazed it happened to this day.
At the beginning, they kept recreating it in simulators and they kept surviving. However, that was with the information they were about to be struck by birds, lose both engines and the exact location of LaGuardia before the strike occurred. With human element of reacting and assessing introduced, 95 simulations were done, and none landed at LaGuardia as you said.
@@MaurickSh Even with the knowledge they didn't always make it back and with even a medium amount of reaction time the best they could do was hit the in-water landing lights at LaGuardia.
Here's a little tidbit that you don't know:The plane was stored for several years in Supor's Yard in Harrison,NJ before going to its ultimate destination.Sully's Congresswoman in California at the time was Ellen Tauscher,a graduate of Harrison High School in 1969.Ellen also chaired the House for the infamous 2008 bailout bill.
What really brought tears was the Ferry captains. they weren't actors, they were the actual ferry operators on that day... as well as the heroes of the evacuation of lower Manhattan during 9/11. That was part of Coast Guards greatest mobilization of civilian ships when they sent out a message to tell all available boats that want to help to report to Governors Island. Operation Boatlift
I love the quick and dedicated response from the NYPD, EMTs, and of course, the Ferryboat crews. Everyone involved. New York has the best first responders. ⭐ Great story, all around. Sully is a hero, and many others that day, too!
actually 65 percent of people survive water landings. throughout history there has been 1146 people who experienced a water landing. Out of those 1146, 423 died, but 723 survived.
It's insane, I mean... If US1549 had been delayed a few minutes or early a few minutes this could have been another flight and this would be a major crash and not a miracle.
Ah yes, my favourite movie where Forrest Gump and Harvey Dent safely landed a civilian airliner after a birdstrike. Jokes aside, this might be the best thing to come out of 2016. Good acting, interesting storyline and overall just very well made
@@neilkurzman4907 Fair point. It was probably to spice things up a bit. Mind you, a Biopic doesn’t need to be sensationalized and heavily modified to be interesting. For proof, check out Oppenheimer
@@Xanthira222 Yes, in the movie, Titanic has a lot to do with the sinking of the titanic. The investigation had almost nothing to do with reality. And very little to do with a real crash investigation. If you want to see what a real one looks like you should watch the movie Flight with Denzel Washington. My biggest complaint about this movie is a lot of people have watched it and think this is what actually happened in real life. The movie was designed to make you hate your government and make you think they’re inept. That’s why I stopped watching Clint Eastwood movies. After watching them for a lifetime. If you wanna make a fictional movie, then do it.
Planes flying low over NYC - the image is too traumatizing for New Yorkers even today. the people on the ground who saw it must have been terrified for another attack. Thankfully this is a story involving planes and NYC and a happy ending.
actually yes way. the simulator proved the plane could've made it back to teeterboro if the heading was changed immediately. what the simulator didn't account for was the "human element"
I know one thing he was a damn good pilot and instead of plowing into a bunch of buildings he headed for the river heat safe quite a few people that day
It still amazes me to this day, how someone can get something that big with so much weight, off the ground and fly thousands of miles. The people who fly those planes are all heroes in my book. Having the lives of all those people in your hands every day plus the lives of the potential accident victims on the ground would give me nightmares. That is one job I never would aspire to.
Sully is a Hero. Not because he landed that plane without losing a soul, but because he trained at his craft over a lifetime to be able to land that plane without losing a soul.
i can only imagine the feelings that people in the city could have been experiencing watching an aircraft fly that close to buildings, especially after the events of 9/11
Captain Sullenberger was the right man in the right place at the right time, as was the whole crew. This was made all the more obvious by his decision to go outside the QRH and start the APU immediately. He knew that not having electrical power was only going to make a bad situation worse. I also feel his time in gliders helped although a A-320 doesn't glide anything like a glider. All in all this whole situation proves that experience is something money can't buy. FLY NAVY!!!
always made me think what new yorkers trhought was happerning when they saw this. a plane flying low through new york seemingly going to crash, how many thought "fuck not again!"
I swear God, i saw that incident from the Waterfront by Exchange place in Jersey City, i have just finished my shift working and i was in my way home, so i decided to walk, it was crazy, i saw it when the plane was already on the water and it was being rescued, my naive mind thought that it'd probably was an training exercise from the Navy or Coast Guard, i had q flip phone, and I was 19 years old
As a boy I was in a light aircraft that got its engine knocked out (fuel starvation) after the backwash from a military jet (practicing an emergency take off) hit us. Thankfully the RAF pilot was very experienced and took me through the correct procedures. I don't think that I've ever been as scared as when he first said to adopt the crash position and then as we touched the runway he spoke the standard "Brace, Brace, Brace" - Heavens only know how these passengers felt. Hopefully the professionalism of the crew and the short time it happened in meant that they didn't have a chance to panic.
@@eamonreidy9534 So you’ve performed a GVI of the aft fuselage?🤔 It stayed afloat for a while, so of course it would have made a difference if it would be needed.
@speedbird9313 I did something extraordinary called reading the reports. And I have long since looked in the museum. And not all of us in the industry need to use big terminology on the internet, with largely non aviation people. It's pretty pathetic.
I wonder if when people saw the plane if people thought it was another 9/11 attack. It amazing that not only the plane stay in one piece but everyone on board survived.
How the engines catching the water didn't rip the plane apart or cartwheel it, I'll never know. I'm an atheist, but instances like this sometimes make me question myself.
Di negara kami Indonesia juga ada pilot hebat seperti Kapten Sully. Beliau bernama Kapten Rozak. Peristiwa pendaratan darurat pesawat B 737 Garuda Indonesia di sungai Bengawan Solo dengan tetap mempertahankan badan pesawat tetap utuh.
