They were over Manhattan and radioed they were returning left, back to La Guardia. Multiple bird strikes destroyed both engines of that aircraft at only 2800 feet, causing a forced water landing.
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The story seems straightforward, and it is.
“And Clint Eastwood directing, I’m so excited”, Flynn said. You put the two together and you get a film that will have you gripping your theater armrest and rooting for a reluctant hero to win out over machines and a dehumanizing staff of bureaucratic doubters.
Barnhardt said she’s not really sure she even wants to see the movie, because she’s not sure how she’ll react. “Sully” tells the story behind the story. Sully was called a hero but many, but not by everyone.
The 15-month investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board is the film’s central focus. The courtroom drama, a huge hearing room scene, is perfectly rendered. He holds his own with Hanks and captures the charisma and humor in Skiles’ personality as well as the admiration and loyalty he feels for Sully. Listen up, Oscar. Hanks and director Eastwood deserve the three words Sully prizes most: “Job well done”.
Somehow Eastwood is able to make NTSB hearings, hotel rooms and phone conversations not just bearable, but somewhat captivating. His only choice is to keep the plane in control and glide to a landing.
The Clint Eastwood directed film “Sully” officially comes out Friday, but Texomans got to have a sneak preview Thursday night.
“I was thinking I was going to die and I’d never see my children”, Barnhardt said.
“I was in seat 15A, so I had window seat”, Sanderson said, “I saw everything coming out under the wing”. “That particular time in history, NY was in a bit of a depressed state”. Within 24 minutes, all 155 people were rescued. Sully details that incredible act of heroism, as well as the personal and public toll it played on both captain and co-pilot.
The first was when Cline, a US Airways training pilot and check airman who checks other pilots’ skills, watched the stricken jet settle into the river on TV.
Sully (Tom Hanks) about to ditch the plane in the HudsonCourtesy of Warner Bros.
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Meanwhile, those who’ve seen the screening of the movie Wednesday approved of Hanks’ portrayal of the hero pilot. He knows he did the right thing. Tom Hanks steps into “Sully’s” professional uniform and, in his brilliant way, “becomes” the pilot with 40 years of experience, who had just seconds to make a decision, which saved his plane full of passengers and crew.
