Interesting that IRL Sully said the difference from the movie is that the panel was actually very helpful and willing to work with the captain to find out what happened. They weren't as antagonistic as they show in the movie
I figured that was artistic license. Couldn’t imagine there being this kind of angry inquisition into the man who saved 155 people in a catastrophic situation
I know films take artistic license but when you're dealing with something like this, I think it's garbage. Tell the story like it is. They villainized the panel at the hearings, for the sake of drama. Landing a plane on water with 155 people on board is drama enough. It needs no extra flare.
@@vincentcappello4746 that's the fine line between documentary and a movie. This is a basically a fictional work that inspired from true event, not the carbon copy of the event. Never take a movie as a fact or source of the truth. Never.
I love how the Teterborough pilot pulled the throttle to idle and pulled the reverses after she’d just crashed into a building. That’s muscle memory at its best.
@@superltwins Sure. After a plane touches down, they shift the throttle to idle and then reverse the engines (so if the plane was sitting still, it would start going backwards) in order to slow the plane down.
@@jeffrowisdabest just wanna correct one minor thing. The engine isn't reversed, the thrust is reverse by redirecting it through flaps. The engine is always spinning in the same direction.
@@superltwins airplane engines aren’t like car engines where if you stop telling it to produce power it’ll immediately shut off. When coming in for a regular landing, pilots will reduce the thrust to idle (not off) so they won’t be speeding down the runway as if they were about to take off again, so they gain a muscle memory from doing this on every landing. While the engines are slowing down to idle, they’re still producing a forward acceleration vector, so that’s why they use reversers to redirect the direction of it and help slow the plane down even more
I had the pleasure of one time being Sally’s passenger on one flight home Sunday evening. I remember his name because it was unique and I thought it was a little funny little did I know a year later he would be famous for a good reason. Thank you Sully for saving those people!
I love when the female pilot says 7 miles from the runway, and the other pilot shakes his head just a tiny bit because he has eyeballed that he isn't going to make it.
Fun fact: All four pilots in these simulation scenes were played by real airline pilots! Captain Larry Guthrie and Captain Lucy Young in the LaGuardia simulation, Captain Lori Cline and First Officer Jon Witten in the Teterboro simulation
Hollywood portraying the NTSB as the bad-guy-inquisition for the sake of drama instead of the real investigation which was much more meaningful and interesting… interesting to other than the most easily entertained.
just me Which is why the real NTSB never even entertained the thought that they could make it back (and those weren’t even the right landings - in his book, Sully says that, in the few seconds before he knew the Hudson was the only shot, the airport in his mind was Newark) - they themselves commissioned the 34-second delay sims (and at the real hearing explicitly stated that the immediate-turn sims - which only made it back about half the time - were not realistic) 99.999% certain it was impossible but not doing their jobs if they didn’t see that last 0.001% for themselves.
TPTGopher yeah I know. The real NTSB did actually think sully did everything right, but bc they work for the NTSB they have to do their job . Bc this is a movie they made the NTSB look bad
the problem is that the NTSB is a real institution that works to improve safety very hard.. even for artistic licence making them a villain was a total dick move
Yes but it´s a movie. NTSB must review all options to see if there was a better solution or not. Not that they want to blame the pilot but to ensure that the training for pilots is the best possibly. If they face the same situation. But this is Hollywood and a movie always need a bad guy
God bless you sweetheart. God wasn't finished with you and your fellow passengers.... Wasn't that something. I can only amagine what you went through that day. I don't know why I'm writing to you, but it's 4:45 am and God is with me and he wants you to know he loves you so much. Praise God.. Happy holidays to all of God's children.
His speech abt being human in a time like that via a simulator that had 17 times to get it right is legendary!! I couldn't stop rewinding that part the fucking nerve of those people to try and compare a non life scenario to a real one!! I love this fuckin movie!!
None of this is real tho... The NTSB lauded Sully as a god. They just did all this bullshit for the movie because Hollywood is gonna Hollywood. None of the events afterwards are real... like 0%.
@@johnspence8141 That is not correct. There was an investigation. The NTSB is required to do so with all crashes. And the NTSB DID run simulations checking if they could have made it back to the airport: First with immediate turning, which only generated a 50% success rate to each. Then inserting the 35 second reaction time, which had a 100% failure rate. So there is historical fact in this scene. Mayday does an excellent video on this: th-cam.com/video/Az8UfZ34h8s/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=OnTheMove However, the movie demonizes the NTSB as a bunch of incompetent morons out to 'sully' Sully.The movie directors basically latched on to the public perception of the NTSB post-crash and BLEW that up like 10x worse (alot of the public and media were concerned that the NTSB were trying demonize heroes, when the NTSB was just trying to do its job) ANY competent human should have been able to look at a 1 out of 18 and been like "Nah bruh. That's not reliable".
It was just for the movie. In real life there were no hearings. All of the investigators to a man and woman found in favour of Sully and went on record to say what he had done was nothing short of remarkable.
@@randomdogma6744 Thats probably why the movie has such a "low" rating in imdb at 7.4. However, I treated this as a movie instead of a documentary and for me it's still a 9/10.
Is there a monument for this guy? If you think about it, no only did he save his passengers, he avoided killing god knows how many hundreds if not thousands by avoiding heading over a populated city. Mad respect.
When this happened I was on 96th Street and I hadn't heard about it. My out-of-state family called me to "make sure I was okay." I told them, "I could have been hit by a bus just walking down the street. The only way they would be sure I was okay was if I was on that plane. Because they already knew all of them had survived.
Its worth mentioning, the NTSB was not antagonistic to the flight crew. They recognized immediately that they had pulled off a miracle and saved the lives of everyone onboard. But this is a movie, and there had to be an adversary for theatrical effect
For the Movie the NTSB was made to be the bad guy. In reality Sullenberg's decision to land on the Hudson was analyzed but never seriously criticized. The fact that the sim pilots needed many attempts to make a turn back work was always considered as an indication that he made the right call.
I know this is meant to be a serious scene but I love Jeff's little smirk at 02:08, he knew exactly what would have happened if they'd attempted a return to Teterboro and he knows that everyone else is about to find that out as well.
To those who believe that all of this investigation and blaming occurred, along with those that had been witness or victims of the event who believe the same, none of this ever happened. Frankly, the people just accepted that it was a water landing that had to be done and thanked the pilots, but unfortunately the film can't be 15 minutes. The pilots even complained about this to the movie directors.
Yea, when I heard they were making a movie of it, I was seriously wondering how they could make a full movie out of it unless it was a real-time recreation of events from takeoff to rescue of passengers, with a couple sequences done over from different camera angles to pad for time.
I think this was a case of Eastwood (director) wanted to tell this incredible story. But needed to translate into “movie speech”. You need conflict in a movie in a story. I don’t mind it not being 100% true
I remember the Lead Investigator saying that he was worried that this film could have a negative impact on future investigations because if people believe the movie version, that in future incidents people might be less willing to be truthful or participate because they would think the NTSB would be out to get them. I understand you want to make a movie of this great deed but sometimes it's just best to tell it how it really happen and not worrying about making a $100,000,000.00 at the box office. Shame on Eastwood.
@@ashleyhansen6150 In real life they do go after the pilots, even if Sully saves those lives for sure, even him blamed and went after the pilots on the Ethiopian crash of the 737 MAX before it became what we are aware today ! He only retracted from his position after having experienced the failure in the sim. He actually did what he was against in his “let’s get serious now” he forgot the human factor !
@@ashleyhansen6150 Shame on Eastwood? Or maybe just don't base dramatized movies as your primary source of knowledge about government branches and how they operate in real life...
Imagine how many scapegoats have had their life's ruined and never got the chance to prove themselves innocent just so the guys at the top of the pile do not lose any power or money
Except this didn't happen in real life. The NTSB ran simulations and only 7 or 13 attempts to LaGuardia resulted in suceess and only then just barely. The NTSB also concluded themselves that the simulations weren't realistic in that the turnbacks were instant instead of after normal decision making. There was never a question both engines had failed, and the NTSB praised the flight crew's handling of the situation. The film was directed by Clint Eastwood who is no fan of the Federal government, one has to think much of the NTSB's portrayal is coming from him. In fact Captain Sullenberger was disturbed by the portrayal he asked to have the investigators real names removed from the characters as he thought it wasn't fair to associate them with the fictionalized tribunal at the end.
@@iamnotcreative good to know Thankyou for the information and thanks for sharing it without insults and profanity, I had to check I was still in you tube comments I mean you didn't even call me a Nazi! Seriously thank you it's always good to learn
That's why when the pilots die in a crash it's automatically ruled as "pilot error" Sully got lucky, he successfully crash landed the plane, saved passengers and walk away unharmed Hard to pin pilot error on him
@@josmo1363 dude, come on. The NTSB is one of the few US Govt agency along with NOAA that does anything good for the world. They have done incredible work, flight and marine navigation would not be half as safe without those guys. Don't you dare sully the good name of the NTSB. This film is fiction made by Clint Eastwood, a guy who hates govt agencies in all forms and drummed up this drama for no real reason.
Do keep in mind that as far as water landing spots go, the Hudson is as good as it gets. Relatively straight, open, and plenty of nearby boats to rescue survivors. Also keep in mind that so long as the Aircraft remains in good shape post-landing it should float for a good amount of time (up to hours, depending on weight).
I remembered the part in the movie where the guy looking out the window during a meeting when he saw the plane flying low. I had to fight tears because I was pretty sure he was thinking it's another 9-11.
Think about that crash in queens literally months after 911 where everyone on the plane died including many on the ground. I could only imagine how people felt during that
I wonder about that every time I see this. I can only imagine what was running through the heads of the people who saw a plane going down in NYC again. The pure panic and anxiety that would’ve provoked is so crazy to think about.
Isn't it exactly the world we live in today? He was being judged by the 1 success of some other pilot who had 17 failed attempts. Sully had only 1 attempt, didn't even fail. Just landed somewhere else and yet was being made the bad guy.
In real life, 7 pilots made the return out of 14, the NTSB instantly decried the results as showing it was so close to impossible to be meaningless, the 35 second delay was at their urging and made is impossible to land safely, and 0 pilots made the water landing successfully. Their conclusion was very simple; Sully saved everyone, no questions.
Hollywood sometimes. The first thing you do when an engine fails is disconnect autothrottle, and bring the thrust lever all the way back. She was holding it at TOGA until she landed, AFTER THE FAILURE.
its a sim, settings in place account for the loss of thrust, but the lever is pushed forward so the sim can continue, and pulled back so the plane can stop as if they don't it will just keep bouncing until the airspeed reaches 0
Yea, those full cat D simulators are great, but once they hit the ground, the simulation basically becomes meaningless since it can't simulate the physics of solid object shear and stuff. The idea is that once you crash, you reset all the controls to neutrals/idles so when the simulation is reset, you don't go bounding off down the (simulated) runway again with nobody at the controls.
Captain Sully and Co-captain. Thanks for what you did on the morning of January 15 2009. You are amazing folks and so is the rescue crew from NY and NJ. Because of your efforts, all 155 souls on board were saved :-)
I have never watched this movie but I know what happens essentially, but outside of that I think this movie did an amazing job capturing the courtroom the way they did, there wasn’t too much emotion and it wasn’t bland either, you could see the “passion” on both sides and truly grasp the severity and tension in the room without being overwhelmed by emotional outbursts and disturbances
A lot of people in this comments section sadly keep making comments/judgments about the *real life* Sully, FAA, NTSB, etc, based on this movie when it's not an accurate reflection of the reality of what happened and how they actually acted, lol. So yea, it's fine to have dramatized versions of historical events like tons of other movies throughout time we've had, but some certain people need to learn to separate reality from the dramatized Hollywood version in their heads, apparently.
@@irokosalei5133 no, it says at the beginning it is based in a true story....not "it is a true story"....it is based on a true story. If they don't understand..it's on the viewer
This is all fantastic but not how it happened.. Everyone, including the NTSB recognized form the begining how Super Human the aviation skills of Sully is. Hollywood does not know how to make a movie without a protagonist V antagaonist aspect. Who better to serve as the villian than a bunch of bureaucrats! The NTSB still had procedure to follow and a report to make, the actual report stated what everyone allready knew. You do not land a plane on the Hudson without fatalities unless the pilot has some sort of unimagineable next level savage skills. The biggest piece of information we have of how effing insane a feat this was is that maticulously scrutinized and detailed report from the NTSB. BEAST MODE ENGAGED!
In an emergency crisis situation like this 35 seconds is like a blink even with someone who isn't panicked is acting calm trying to assess the situation and make calculations there is a million things that cross your mind. Even in this simulation when they are just sitting there for 35 seconds doing nothing they are not communicating there is no fear no second guessing no analysis of actions no collaboration with the pilots no standard checklist of procedures after a crash or bird strike like that nothing makes it seem like they had all the time in the world sitting there doing absolutely nothing for 35 seconds and they still crash....how many people would have died with those other pilots in the simulation everyone?
this scene was completely made up. Even Sullenbeger, "Sully" was disturbed by its inclusion and made sure that none of the peoples real names were used due to how the scene was portrayed. While the sims done for the legit investigation did show it was possible, the odds were basically 50/50 and the board concluded that given the circumstances Sully did the best choice. I love Eastwood as an actor and director but this inclusion is questionable.
Funny how the the second captain sets the thrust levers to iddle and deploys the reverses while the plane is crashing against buildings. Good job captain.
Dumb ancient men living in the past who still think it's funny to invoke "women drivers...", whatcha gonna do eh? Maybe you should try to grow a brain.
I hope people watching this realize that this is a dramatized version of events. Even the real Captain Sully criticized the movie's depiction as presenting a false version of the investigation.
Some of these comments sound so far removed from reality that it makes me wonder if any of you people were even alive when this happened. Sully got unanimous praise for saving all those people. It was called the miracle on the Hudson. He never had to defend his actions to a board that vilified him.
Gotta heighten the drama in film, Tom Hanks went through his biopic phase in the 2010’s and always made respectful Changes IMO. Nothing over the top but necessary to heighten the drama for film.
You can notice right away that the female pilot on the second sim knew they werent gonna make the moment they took the turn. "Lets see if we can make it" that one line already made it clear that she knew there wasnt enough time and altitude.
i always felt bad for the way the investigators were portrayed in this movie. they were not "out to get him" the way it is (somewhat) implied here. their job is to apply as much scrutiny as humanly possible, and then some more. not factoring in the "human factor" was an oversight, not some "gotcha" tactic. the only way to determine if you made the right decision is to compare you to the "perfect" decision and see how you stack up. Im also willing to bet they applied a bit more pressure than they normally would have due to the fact that sully was being hailed as a hero. they didn't want to compromise the investigation "and their reputations" by looking like they were going easy on him just because it all worked out. water landings are incredibly dangerous. his decision could have cost everyone their lives just as fast as trying to make it to the airport. if his wing had dipped a few degrees or his speed had been a few knots slower/faster. Therefore it is imperative that the investigation determine if it was the ABSOLUTE best possible decision. the next pilot who tries may not be as lucky, and should be aware if there could be better alternatives. I suppose if you want to make a movie about an aviation investigation interesting to any audience, you need to ramp up the drama and tensions a bit. gotta have someone to root for and to root against.
It's incredibly interesting, after the co-pilot said, "we're about seven miles from the runway" You see the pilot shake his head. It's almost like he knew they wouldn't make it then. Such a small, but important detail.
Best movie I’ve seen in a LONG time. “Pull up. Pull up.” Then they hit apartment complexes. I had NO idea that they went through that series of NTSB sims. Sully is a REAL person--not some made up hero. Thank you Sully/co-pilot and the hundreds of First Responders on the river that day...”All souls saved."
Please separate the movie from reality in your brain. In reality, the investigators applauded him for his extraordinary actions almost immediately. For the movie, they just invented a bunch of extra drama, tension, arguing and bullshit to make it more interesting/dramatic. So yea, when discussing this, keep the movie discussion to the movie and reality to reality. They're separate. Dramatized events loosely based on a true story is fine, but people talk about it like the movie happened in reality, lol. You should think of them in your head as two different stories.
17 times the simulation was run ? There are no do-overs in the real world. For over 40 years Uncle Dean flew dozens of types of airplanes. Gliders to P-51 fighters, saber jets to airliners to the big cargo aircraft . He always spent extra time on worst case scenarios as an instructor, making sure students could adapt to challenges. "Practice is for learning how to do something. Actually doing it on the job will be the only real test of your capabilities." The Captain is in the left seat for a reason. He must analyze, adapt, and improvise to overcome all situations, all in fractions of time. Many times, and within hours of aircraft incidents, he could tell us what probably happened and was right nearly every time.
Thanks for uploading the 2nd part, I cant remember if there was more to this scene (I might have to watch,) is there any more stuff that would warrant a part 3?
Captain Sullenberger proved that the line between the possible and the impossible can be shaved damned thin. We will never know how many lives were saved that day, on the ground, by a solid professional who was totally on his game.
Maybee... But usually the faa is in the front lines but behind them are other bunch of companies that wouldnt like to loose lots of money. Remember where you live, because we live in a place that anyone is willing to point fingers and shoot first before taking responsability or to pay up. Not all of them but many countries have this problem with companies because they dont care.,
Except they weren't witch hunters. Sully himself hated this movie, he made it clear that the NTSB were nothing but fair, and they themselves pushed for the time delay. This part is nothing but bullshit.
The whole entire movie I was thinking, "when the hell are they going to talk about the human factor?" They ignored it for the majority of the movie when that is the #1 defense for Sully and in real life any person would have came out from the start with that. But, this is a movie and we have to drag things along.
When incident always occur they always point out that pilots are always are at fault, like Sully's landing was not satisfying enough so they made him look bad and never considered that the ocean landing is a "successful landing" bunch of cunts NTSB are. They aint dumb, just bunch of cunts.
David in real life the ntsb did not treat sully like this. Clint had to make the movie watchable and if he would have made it how it really happened the movie would have sucked. In reality the ntsb praised sully and called him a hero. Don’t believe everything you see on tv.
This is all bullshit. None of this happened. There was NEVER any question that Sully did the right thing. He is a HERO, absolutely no question about it.
This actually happened. The airline and airplane manufacturer were more worried about insurance claims and smearing a man; any man was not even a thought if they could get a buck out of it.
It's because of how the simulator works. The settings can simulate engine shutdown but the lever has to be pushed so that the sim keeps going. And once they crashed the lever is returned to idle to stop the simulation
I love the woop woop pull up. I heard a pilot say he made it his alarm clock for his iPhone. wakes him up right away! it's interesting how some noises and things can wake you up right away. I drove into nyc for long trips often and when you drive into Manhattan from the GWB the 178th street i95 tunnel I used to describe as a human car wash 😅 the lights used to wake me up from a groggy autopilot roadtrip into city driving hyper alert semi aggressive mode.
my only complain is that Clint Eastwood tried to make the NTSB the bad guy. Sullenberg was actually disturbed on how the NTSB investigators were portrayed. In a hyper politicized enviroment such as the US, it comes as no surprised that Eastwood a outspoken republican tried to tarnish the federal government (democrat at the time). I cant watch any Eastwood movies anymore without thinking of his politics first, he's so obvious about it. The last movie Eastwood wasnt so political minded was the Million Dollar Baby.
Interesting that IRL Sully said the difference from the movie is that the panel was actually very helpful and willing to work with the captain to find out what happened. They weren't as antagonistic as they show in the movie
It's always added drama + a villain to make these spicy. Same was true for Chernobyl series as well.
i always wondered why that panel was so bent on convicting Sully as if there was something to gain.
I figured that was artistic license. Couldn’t imagine there being this kind of angry inquisition into the man who saved 155 people in a catastrophic situation
I know films take artistic license but when you're dealing with something like this, I think it's garbage. Tell the story like it is. They villainized the panel at the hearings, for the sake of drama. Landing a plane on water with 155 people on board is drama enough. It needs no extra flare.
@@vincentcappello4746 that's the fine line between documentary and a movie. This is a basically a fictional work that inspired from true event, not the carbon copy of the event. Never take a movie as a fact or source of the truth. Never.
I love how the Teterborough pilot pulled the throttle to idle and pulled the reverses after she’d just crashed into a building. That’s muscle memory at its best.
There's a lot of subtle details in this movie that the untrained eye misses.
Can you explain this? I'm not as mechanically smart as you so why is it muscle memory to pull the throttle to idle?
@@superltwins Sure. After a plane touches down, they shift the throttle to idle and then reverse the engines (so if the plane was sitting still, it would start going backwards) in order to slow the plane down.
@@jeffrowisdabest just wanna correct one minor thing. The engine isn't reversed, the thrust is reverse by redirecting it through flaps. The engine is always spinning in the same direction.
@@superltwins airplane engines aren’t like car engines where if you stop telling it to produce power it’ll immediately shut off. When coming in for a regular landing, pilots will reduce the thrust to idle (not off) so they won’t be speeding down the runway as if they were about to take off again, so they gain a muscle memory from doing this on every landing.
While the engines are slowing down to idle, they’re still producing a forward acceleration vector, so that’s why they use reversers to redirect the direction of it and help slow the plane down even more
My dad almost died that day but Sully landed the plane and saved him. Thank you so much!
woop woop
Sully’s fuckin awesome
No,no he didn’t…
did he recover from a heart attack?
I had the pleasure of one time being Sally’s passenger on one flight home Sunday evening. I remember his name because it was unique and I thought it was a little funny little did I know a year later he would be famous for a good reason. Thank you Sully for saving those people!
I love when the female pilot says 7 miles from the runway, and the other pilot shakes his head just a tiny bit because he has eyeballed that he isn't going to make it.
Plus I love keeping hands on the throttle of dead engines :D
Such attention to detail. Love it
Fun fact: All four pilots in these simulation scenes were played by real airline pilots!
Captain Larry Guthrie and Captain Lucy Young in the LaGuardia simulation, Captain Lori Cline and First Officer Jon Witten in the Teterboro simulation
And because they had speaking roles, they are in the Screen Actors Guild. Nice.
Fun fact: none of that actually took place. The NTSB new almost immediately that the correct decision was made.
Hollywood portraying the NTSB as the bad-guy-inquisition for the sake of drama instead of the real investigation which was much more meaningful and interesting… interesting to other than the most easily entertained.
@@dadof3tngirls - *knew. Simpleton.
@@markfox1545 Get a life.
The
"Too low terrain"
"Pull-up"
is so catchy 😅
The TCAS sounds like that. Needed to get the attention of the pilot or a first officer.
It makes me think of "doooors clooosing"
I always hear Zap Brannigan saying, “Too low!………..lower”
Terrifyingly catchy, yes.
I love the way it said. "Wind shear"
Tom Hanks absolutely nailed Sully. Brilliant performance from a brilliant actor.
Well said
You bloody said it
Yes. In my list, he and Daniel Day-Lewis are at the top.
Brilliant director in Mr. Eastwood too.
How do you know? Do you know Sully personally? If you don’t then how do you know he nailed Sully?
That plane going down in the middle of the city would have been a disaster
rocharox Would Be very very bad
yes, he simulated it in his dream. crashed straight into a building
it happened before in Queens a few months after 9/11
Joseph Rodriguez-Amaya They didn’t lose both engines though
how so?
computer had 17 times to get it right.. that's 17 loads of people dead..
This is fiction
@@Rojk no it's not! This is based off of reality
Rojk It’s a true story,
@@user-kz7wj5fl9r It's based on a true story. But the critic from FAA and the hearing is fiction.
Rojk Is it?
"With great mustache comes great mustachability."
-Peter Griffin
Damn you all!!
- Stewie griffin
"Sully could've made it to the airport"
-Peter Griffin
Imagine the consequence America would’ve suffered if sully decided to go to the AirPort
just me Which is why the real NTSB never even entertained the thought that they could make it back (and those weren’t even the right landings - in his book, Sully says that, in the few seconds before he knew the Hudson was the only shot, the airport in his mind was Newark) - they themselves commissioned the 34-second delay sims (and at the real hearing explicitly stated that the immediate-turn sims - which only made it back about half the time - were not realistic) 99.999% certain it was impossible but not doing their jobs if they didn’t see that last 0.001% for themselves.
TPTGopher yeah I know. The real NTSB did actually think sully did everything right, but bc they work for the NTSB they have to do their job . Bc this is a movie they made the NTSB look bad
the problem is that the NTSB is a real institution that works to improve safety very hard.. even for artistic licence making them a villain was a total dick move
Yes but it´s a movie. NTSB must review all options to see if there was a better solution or not. Not that they want to blame the pilot but to ensure that the training for pilots is the best possibly. If they face the same situation. But this is Hollywood and a movie always need a bad guy
Not just because it's a movie... because it's a Clint Eastwood movie, and Clint is a bitter old man with an agenda
Thank you Sully for saving my life that day.
If it weren't for you I wouldn't be here today.
real?
ASHLEY NEALY you a lie
God bless you sweetheart. God wasn't finished with you and your fellow passengers.... Wasn't that something. I can only amagine what you went through that day. I don't know why I'm writing to you, but it's 4:45 am and God is with me and he wants you to know he loves you so much. Praise God.. Happy holidays to all of God's children.
@@ebbss3053 Why would you talk to someone that way who went through that horrible ordeal?? Were you on that plane as well??
Tom Matlock you mad 😂😂
Sully's lucky they didn't show the simulation with the Denzel roll or he'd be in jail.
Underrated comment.
@J.R. Spingly r/wooosh
OtakuEdits rofl
WE ARE INVERTED !
I actually looked that shit up and I laughed so fucking hard.
His speech abt being human in a time like that via a simulator that had 17 times to get it right is legendary!! I couldn't stop rewinding that part the fucking nerve of those people to try and compare a non life scenario to a real one!! I love this fuckin movie!!
None of this is real tho... The NTSB lauded Sully as a god. They just did all this bullshit for the movie because Hollywood is gonna Hollywood. None of the events afterwards are real... like 0%.
Ya but it never happened. All the reviewers agreed sully made the right choice. There was no investigation at all
@@johnspence8141 That is not correct. There was an investigation. The NTSB is required to do so with all crashes. And the NTSB DID run simulations checking if they could have made it back to the airport: First with immediate turning, which only generated a 50% success rate to each. Then inserting the 35 second reaction time, which had a 100% failure rate. So there is historical fact in this scene.
Mayday does an excellent video on this: th-cam.com/video/Az8UfZ34h8s/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=OnTheMove
However, the movie demonizes the NTSB as a bunch of incompetent morons out to 'sully' Sully.The movie directors basically latched on to the public perception of the NTSB post-crash and BLEW that up like 10x worse (alot of the public and media were concerned that the NTSB were trying demonize heroes, when the NTSB was just trying to do its job)
ANY competent human should have been able to look at a 1 out of 18 and been like "Nah bruh. That's not reliable".
It was just for the movie. In real life there were no hearings. All of the investigators to a man and woman found in favour of Sully and went on record to say what he had done was nothing short of remarkable.
@@randomdogma6744 Thats probably why the movie has such a "low" rating in imdb at 7.4. However, I treated this as a movie instead of a documentary and for me it's still a 9/10.
Is there a monument for this guy? If you think about it, no only did he save his passengers, he avoided killing god knows how many hundreds if not thousands by avoiding heading over a populated city. Mad respect.
When this happened I was on 96th Street and I hadn't heard about it. My out-of-state family called me to "make sure I was okay." I told them, "I could have been hit by a bus just walking down the street. The only way they would be sure I was okay was if I was on that plane. Because they already knew all of them had survived.
The Sullenberger Aviation Museum in Charlotte NC will be opening some time next year, and it'll have Cactus 1549 on display.
Its worth mentioning, the NTSB was not antagonistic to the flight crew. They recognized immediately that they had pulled off a miracle and saved the lives of everyone onboard. But this is a movie, and there had to be an adversary for theatrical effect
For the Movie the NTSB was made to be the bad guy. In reality Sullenberg's decision to land on the Hudson was analyzed but never seriously criticized. The fact that the sim pilots needed many attempts to make a turn back work was always considered as an indication that he made the right call.
thats good to hear as that seems like a really blatant smear campaign and I did not remember that from the new surrounding the actually event..
well, the movie needed a villain, so the blonde Karen and her henchmen are made to seem that way.. but it works for the movie.
@@Defender78 Heisenbergs wife...
I know this is meant to be a serious scene but I love Jeff's little smirk at 02:08, he knew exactly what would have happened if they'd attempted a return to Teterboro and he knows that everyone else is about to find that out as well.
This is me trying to land with normal conditions on FSX.
lol
😂
Should have went with the hot air ballon going mach 3
To those who believe that all of this investigation and blaming occurred, along with those that had been witness or victims of the event who believe the same, none of this ever happened.
Frankly, the people just accepted that it was a water landing that had to be done and thanked the pilots, but unfortunately the film can't be 15 minutes. The pilots even complained about this to the movie directors.
Yea, when I heard they were making a movie of it, I was seriously wondering how they could make a full movie out of it unless it was a real-time recreation of events from takeoff to rescue of passengers, with a couple sequences done over from different camera angles to pad for time.
I think this was a case of Eastwood (director) wanted to tell this incredible story. But needed to translate into “movie speech”. You need conflict in a movie in a story. I don’t mind it not being 100% true
I remember the Lead Investigator saying that he was worried that this film could have a negative impact on future investigations because if people believe the movie version, that in future incidents people might be less willing to be truthful or participate because they would think the NTSB would be out to get them. I understand you want to make a movie of this great deed but sometimes it's just best to tell it how it really happen and not worrying about making a $100,000,000.00 at the box office. Shame on Eastwood.
@@ashleyhansen6150 In real life they do go after the pilots, even if Sully saves those lives for sure, even him blamed and went after the pilots on the Ethiopian crash of the 737 MAX before it became what we are aware today ! He only retracted from his position after having experienced the failure in the sim. He actually did what he was against in his “let’s get serious now” he forgot the human factor !
@@ashleyhansen6150 Shame on Eastwood? Or maybe just don't base dramatized movies as your primary source of knowledge about government branches and how they operate in real life...
Imagine how many scapegoats have had their life's ruined and never got the chance to prove themselves innocent just so the guys at the top of the pile do not lose any power or money
Except this didn't happen in real life. The NTSB ran simulations and only 7 or 13 attempts to LaGuardia resulted in suceess and only then just barely. The NTSB also concluded themselves that the simulations weren't realistic in that the turnbacks were instant instead of after normal decision making. There was never a question both engines had failed, and the NTSB praised the flight crew's handling of the situation.
The film was directed by Clint Eastwood who is no fan of the Federal government, one has to think much of the NTSB's portrayal is coming from him. In fact Captain Sullenberger was disturbed by the portrayal he asked to have the investigators real names removed from the characters as he thought it wasn't fair to associate them with the fictionalized tribunal at the end.
@@iamnotcreative good to know Thankyou for the information and thanks for sharing it without insults and profanity, I had to check I was still in you tube comments I mean you didn't even call me a Nazi! Seriously thank you it's always good to learn
@@iamnotcreative wait, you mean DirtyHarry-ManWithNoName-SecretService Eastwood?
That's why when the pilots die in a crash it's automatically ruled as "pilot error"
Sully got lucky, he successfully crash landed the plane, saved passengers and walk away unharmed
Hard to pin pilot error on him
@@josmo1363 dude, come on. The NTSB is one of the few US Govt agency along with NOAA that does anything good for the world. They have done incredible work, flight and marine navigation would not be half as safe without those guys. Don't you dare sully the good name of the NTSB. This film is fiction made by Clint Eastwood, a guy who hates govt agencies in all forms and drummed up this drama for no real reason.
Today, there s another hero like mr Sully in Russia. The pilot did save 233 passengers after the plane lost both engines.
Another Miracle
I doubt they are gonna make a movie about him hahahah. But yea the man landed an a320 on a cornfield without landing gear and everyone stayed alive.
I think it's the Ural Airlines flight on an A320
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Do keep in mind that as far as water landing spots go, the Hudson is as good as it gets. Relatively straight, open, and plenty of nearby boats to rescue survivors. Also keep in mind that so long as the Aircraft remains in good shape post-landing it should float for a good amount of time (up to hours, depending on weight).
I remembered the part in the movie where the guy looking out the window during a meeting when he saw the plane flying low. I had to fight tears because I was pretty sure he was thinking it's another 9-11.
Think about that crash in queens literally months after 911 where everyone on the plane died including many on the ground. I could only imagine how people felt during that
I wonder about that every time I see this. I can only imagine what was running through the heads of the people who saw a plane going down in NYC again. The pure panic and anxiety that would’ve provoked is so crazy to think about.
Isn't it exactly the world we live in today? He was being judged by the 1 success of some other pilot who had 17 failed attempts. Sully had only 1 attempt, didn't even fail. Just landed somewhere else and yet was being made the bad guy.
This scene is completely inaccurate, this never happened
Cause its about money.
Joe King American audiences eat up drama. Look at u571, Hollywood basically replaced the royal navy with the US navy.
In real life, 7 pilots made the return out of 14, the NTSB instantly decried the results as showing it was so close to impossible to be meaningless, the 35 second delay was at their urging and made is impossible to land safely, and 0 pilots made the water landing successfully. Their conclusion was very simple; Sully saved everyone, no questions.
They ARE the bad guys. Rather than pay out their settlement they wanted to blame the pilot. Fuck them.
LOL I've got no engines and just crashed, let me apply full reverse thrust....
Hollywood sometimes. The first thing you do when an engine fails is disconnect autothrottle, and bring the thrust lever all the way back. She was holding it at TOGA until she landed, AFTER THE FAILURE.
its a sim, settings in place account for the loss of thrust, but the lever is pushed forward so the sim can continue, and pulled back so the plane can stop as if they don't it will just keep bouncing until the airspeed reaches 0
Yea, those full cat D simulators are great, but once they hit the ground, the simulation basically becomes meaningless since it can't simulate the physics of solid object shear and stuff. The idea is that once you crash, you reset all the controls to neutrals/idles so when the simulation is reset, you don't go bounding off down the (simulated) runway again with nobody at the controls.
look at this tough boy
They should have said deploy spoilers rather then full reverse thrust. Works the same way, but doesn't involve engines.
Listen to me. I am the captain now.
TheDMBfan it’s actually “look at me, look at me, I am the captain now” you had one job and you fucked up
😂sorry
Broccoli_32 Im dead 💀😂
You done goofed
Well, if you're the captain, then you can sit here and listen to all this NTSB nonsense.
Captain Sully and Co-captain. Thanks for what you did on the morning of January 15 2009. You are amazing folks and so is the rescue crew from NY and NJ. Because of your efforts, all 155 souls on board were saved :-)
*I like how Jeff Skiles remains calm and is just SMILING because he knew it would fail in **2:08*
Some say the computer on the flight is still saying “pull up” to this day.
If it was not for this pilot then my mom would not be alive today. Thank you so much!
I love the smirk from Sully's Co-pilot at 02:37 after "pull up"
I have never watched this movie but I know what happens essentially, but outside of that I think this movie did an amazing job capturing the courtroom the way they did, there wasn’t too much emotion and it wasn’t bland either, you could see the “passion” on both sides and truly grasp the severity and tension in the room without being overwhelmed by emotional outbursts and disturbances
EVERY movie based in history is changed for dramatic effect to a degree. From the comments here, people still don't get this.
A lot of people in this comments section sadly keep making comments/judgments about the *real life* Sully, FAA, NTSB, etc, based on this movie when it's not an accurate reflection of the reality of what happened and how they actually acted, lol. So yea, it's fine to have dramatized versions of historical events like tons of other movies throughout time we've had, but some certain people need to learn to separate reality from the dramatized Hollywood version in their heads, apparently.
@@DeathBringer769 It needs a big disclaimer in the US to remind people this is fiction.
@@irokosalei5133 no, it says at the beginning it is based in a true story....not "it is a true story"....it is based on a true story. If they don't understand..it's on the viewer
"Surely you can't be serious" .........
"I am serious and don't call me Shirley"
This is all fantastic but not how it happened.. Everyone, including the NTSB recognized form the begining how Super Human the aviation skills of Sully is. Hollywood does not know how to make a movie without a protagonist V antagaonist aspect. Who better to serve as the villian than a bunch of bureaucrats!
The NTSB still had procedure to follow and a report to make, the actual report stated what everyone allready knew. You do not land a plane on the Hudson without fatalities unless the pilot has some sort of unimagineable next level savage skills. The biggest piece of information we have of how effing insane a feat this was is that maticulously scrutinized and detailed report from the NTSB.
BEAST MODE ENGAGED!
In an emergency crisis situation like this 35 seconds is like a blink even with someone who isn't panicked is acting calm trying to assess the situation and make calculations there is a million things that cross your mind. Even in this simulation when they are just sitting there for 35 seconds doing nothing they are not communicating there is no fear no second guessing no analysis of actions no collaboration with the pilots no standard checklist of procedures after a crash or bird strike like that nothing makes it seem like they had all the time in the world sitting there doing absolutely nothing for 35 seconds and they still crash....how many people would have died with those other pilots in the simulation everyone?
Also...2800 feet in a climb-out status, losing forward thrust is an almost certain disaster...these jets are not light gliders...Great job, Captain!!!
this scene was completely made up. Even Sullenbeger, "Sully" was disturbed by its inclusion and made sure that none of the peoples real names were used due to how the scene was portrayed. While the sims done for the legit investigation did show it was possible, the odds were basically 50/50 and the board concluded that given the circumstances Sully did the best choice. I love Eastwood as an actor and director but this inclusion is questionable.
@@LestatandBerial That's the problem with "movie" as a medium. If there wasnt any "excitement" then it would be boring and a failure.
Funny how the the second captain sets the thrust levers to iddle and deploys the reverses while the plane is crashing against buildings. Good job captain.
women drivers .......whatcha gonna do eh
He was hoping for a fender bender
An ingested hot dog stand can do a lot of damage if an engine suddenly spools up, gotta be careful out there.
Dumb ancient men living in the past who still think it's funny to invoke "women drivers...", whatcha gonna do eh? Maybe you should try to grow a brain.
@@bigrigJim She's actually an A320 check airman at American. List your aviation credentials, punk. I thought so.
The Automated voice sounds good to my morning alarm
"Pull-up, pull-up"
Dang.... HOW many times did I just watch this now. And I still like it and get emotional
I hope people watching this realize that this is a dramatized version of events. Even the real Captain Sully criticized the movie's depiction as presenting a false version of the investigation.
Yup. The antagonism was a complete exaggeration even flagged by Sully himself. Show a lie enough times and it becomes the truth. Sad.
What an incredible dramatized film of an actual event. Good story and writing.
I love how a pilot keeps her hand on the throttle as if it does anything at this point with both engines gone lol.
Some of these comments sound so far removed from reality that it makes me wonder if any of you people were even alive when this happened. Sully got unanimous praise for saving all those people. It was called the miracle on the Hudson. He never had to defend his actions to a board that vilified him.
I could have died that day but thanks to the pilot, I survived that day on that plane. Thank you so much!
“Two for, Lorraine.
Two for, Lorraine.”
that would be four for Lorraine at this point. Does Lorraine deserve 4? I don't know who she is and what she is getting 4 of but seems like a lot.
Lorraine probably wants at least 7.
makes me wish to re-watch this brilliant movie
Gotta heighten the drama in film, Tom Hanks went through his biopic phase in the 2010’s and always made respectful Changes IMO. Nothing over the top but necessary to heighten the drama for film.
I like how Jeff was smiling because they knew they weren’t gonna make it hahaha
2:30 whenever I see things scene and hear "way too long", it reminds me of the captain "Ho Lee Fuk"
Don't forget Captain Sum Ting Wong
As soon as I saw that aircraft bouncing, I immediately knew that was MSX😂
I love that the woman pilot in the second test immediately figured out they weren’t gonna make it once she said too low
Sully" Sullenberger Speaks to Congress: "My Pay Has Been Cut by 40%"
That Ben character is pretty unsettling like he’s a force of evil
Thank you, uploader.
You can notice right away that the female pilot on the second sim knew they werent gonna make the moment they took the turn. "Lets see if we can make it" that one line already made it clear that she knew there wasnt enough time and altitude.
If the plane had a gun it could've shot those birds out the way just saying.
Not sure that's quite how it works...
flawless logic
They should have had their navigational shields up. No excuse.
the door gunners could of taken out the boids
No, that's animal abuse. Should have just yelled at them out the window to fuck off out the way.
i always felt bad for the way the investigators were portrayed in this movie.
they were not "out to get him" the way it is (somewhat) implied here.
their job is to apply as much scrutiny as humanly possible, and then some more.
not factoring in the "human factor" was an oversight, not some "gotcha" tactic. the only way to determine if you made the right decision is to compare you to the "perfect" decision and see how you stack up.
Im also willing to bet they applied a bit more pressure than they normally would have due to the fact that sully was being hailed as a hero. they didn't want to compromise the investigation "and their reputations" by looking like they were going easy on him just because it all worked out.
water landings are incredibly dangerous. his decision could have cost everyone their lives just as fast as trying to make it to the airport.
if his wing had dipped a few degrees or his speed had been a few knots slower/faster. Therefore it is imperative that the investigation determine if it was the ABSOLUTE best possible decision. the next pilot who tries may not be as lucky, and should be aware if there could be better alternatives.
I suppose if you want to make a movie about an aviation investigation interesting to any audience, you need to ramp up the drama and tensions a bit. gotta have someone to root for and to root against.
It's a movie not a documentary
2:09 I love the assistant's face.. he's thinking.. this time they won't even make it to tha fucking airport ahahahahahahaah
Any landing, any plane, anywhere, with everyone is alive is a perfect landing.
I like the second attempt when you see that the airplane wouldve just killed 100s of people.
Just accept the fact that Sully is a rockstar and move on.
It's incredibly interesting, after the co-pilot said, "we're about seven miles from the runway" You see the pilot shake his head. It's almost like he knew they wouldn't make it then. Such a small, but important detail.
Best movie I’ve seen in a LONG time. “Pull up. Pull up.” Then they hit apartment complexes. I had NO idea that they went through that series of NTSB sims. Sully is a REAL person--not some made up hero. Thank you Sully/co-pilot and the hundreds of First Responders on the river that day...”All souls saved."
Please separate the movie from reality in your brain. In reality, the investigators applauded him for his extraordinary actions almost immediately. For the movie, they just invented a bunch of extra drama, tension, arguing and bullshit to make it more interesting/dramatic. So yea, when discussing this, keep the movie discussion to the movie and reality to reality. They're separate. Dramatized events loosely based on a true story is fine, but people talk about it like the movie happened in reality, lol. You should think of them in your head as two different stories.
2:10 that definitely said "TUM"
This is like how Woody proves his point in Andys bedroom to the other toys.
The balls on that guy to land in the river.
That's just insane.
What a man.
Sully & co pilot are undoubtably hero's, you must see that.
17 times the simulation was run ?
There are no do-overs in the real world.
For over 40 years Uncle Dean flew dozens of types of airplanes. Gliders to P-51 fighters, saber jets to airliners to the big cargo aircraft .
He always spent extra time on worst case scenarios as an instructor, making sure students could adapt to challenges.
"Practice is for learning how to do something. Actually doing it on the job will be the only real test of your capabilities."
The Captain is in the left seat for a reason.
He must analyze, adapt, and improvise to overcome all situations, all in fractions of time.
Many times, and within hours of aircraft incidents, he could tell us what probably happened and was right nearly every time.
What if I told you, this scene never happened in real life and the NTSB was in favor of Sully pretty much from the start?
Thanks for uploading the 2nd part, I cant remember if there was more to this scene (I might have to watch,) is there any more stuff that would warrant a part 3?
ct0760 The co-pilot saying hed have waited to do it in July.
I love how during the second simulation (Teterboro), Skiles has a noticeable "We told you so" smirk ... 2:09 and 2:39
Captain Sullenberger proved that the line between the possible and the impossible can be shaved damned thin. We will never know how many lives were saved that day, on the ground, by a solid professional who was totally on his game.
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A quilting video? Are you stoned?
The NTSB didn't do this, incredibly unrealistic movie.
N724tx Flow the machine is the Pilot error
-No,That's their fault
Well it was this or a 10 minute movie
That's why it is a "movie" everything is unrealistic.
The usual simplistic Eastwood fare, this time with FAA investigators cast as the bad guys.
Yeah, this is pretty hammy.
Because they're witch hunters in this case.
Maybee... But usually the faa is in the front lines but behind them are other bunch of companies that wouldnt like to loose lots of money. Remember where you live, because we live in a place that anyone is willing to point fingers and shoot first before taking responsability or to pay up. Not all of them but many countries have this problem with companies because they dont care.,
Every movie needs an antagonist, that's just human nature
Except they weren't witch hunters. Sully himself hated this movie, he made it clear that the NTSB were nothing but fair, and they themselves pushed for the time delay.
This part is nothing but bullshit.
I loved this scene from this movie.
The whole entire movie I was thinking, "when the hell are they going to talk about the human factor?" They ignored it for the majority of the movie when that is the #1 defense for Sully and in real life any person would have came out from the start with that. But, this is a movie and we have to drag things along.
With all respect to Eastwood but this entire scene is so heavy handled.
He is trying really hard to make NTSB dumb.
not necessarily "dumb", just merely the "bad guys". It's a dramatization, whereby the NTSB are the antagonists.
ive worked for the ntsb,, they are dumb bureaucrats
When incident always occur they always point out that pilots are always are at fault, like Sully's landing was not satisfying enough so they made him look bad and never considered that the ocean landing is a "successful landing" bunch of cunts NTSB are. They aint dumb, just bunch of cunts.
David in real life the ntsb did not treat sully like this. Clint had to make the movie watchable and if he would have made it how it really happened the movie would have sucked. In reality the ntsb praised sully and called him a hero. Don’t believe everything you see on tv.
Yes, his job. Brilliant direction. What would YOU have done?
This is all bullshit. None of this happened. There was NEVER any question that Sully did the right thing. He is a HERO, absolutely no question about it.
This actually happened. The airline and airplane manufacturer were more worried about insurance claims and smearing a man; any man was not even a thought if they could get a buck out of it.
It's a movie
The movie has to have a villan
You can't make a movie in which a plane landed and sully is the hero the end
the real hero was the A320 computer preventing the stall.
@Casey Don I didn't know judgment Day started in 2009
It's a movie, not a documentary, get over it.
The last time I went into the place that was for why it was I never thought it could have been. It just was.
Sully and is crew did the job and nailed it ! Cold blooded professionals. End of story.
We should ban airplanes. Think of the birds that perished for no reason.
Those birds decided to go against the plane and pay the ultimate price.
Canadian Kamigoosie . . . lethal
Sky rats
Maybe we should ban birds instead. Think of the plane that crashed for no reason lol.
theyre all great pilots..in fact i know the lady.. but running into apts and buildings isnt a good option anyday
That Teterborough landing would have killed a few neighborhoods... glad Sully didn't go there- jeez.
2:00 I really like the "hack the time" and then *thirty-five seconds* in unison, could almost be _in the pipe five by five_ :)
Why do they still manage thrust if both engines were out?
With both engines gone .. .there is no thrust. They glide on air. It's called aeronautics. Welcome.
@@Nautilus1972 I think he knows that you idiot
2:45 Why Hands on the Thrust when Engines off ?
Just bad acting
It's because of how the simulator works. The settings can simulate engine shutdown but the lever has to be pushed so that the sim keeps going. And once they crashed the lever is returned to idle to stop the simulation
The simulation should know that the plane can't pull up if the engines aren't working.
I like how two face is just sitting there smirking during all this knowing damn well they're going to crash....
favourite scene from the movie
I just can't believe female pilots are wearing this kind of jewellery even in a simulation flight...
2:11 typo made in the actual movie!
I thought I was the only one that noticed that
I love the woop woop pull up. I heard a pilot say he made it his alarm clock for his iPhone. wakes him up right away! it's interesting how some noises and things can wake you up right away.
I drove into nyc for long trips often and when you drive into Manhattan from the GWB the 178th street i95 tunnel I used to describe as a human car wash 😅 the lights used to wake me up from a groggy autopilot roadtrip into city driving hyper alert semi aggressive mode.
Excellent combination of both machine and human professionalism that created an incredible event airbus a320 was also a hero
they're mad and want to take his license to fly because they just lost a $70 million airbus.
this part is pure fictional
my only complain is that Clint Eastwood tried to make the NTSB the bad guy. Sullenberg was actually disturbed on how the NTSB investigators were portrayed. In a hyper politicized enviroment such as the US, it comes as no surprised that Eastwood a outspoken republican tried to tarnish the federal government (democrat at the time). I cant watch any Eastwood movies anymore without thinking of his politics first, he's so obvious about it.
The last movie Eastwood wasnt so political minded was the Million Dollar Baby.
Well TH-cam...you win. You showed me the first clip in my Recommended...obviously I had to finish it.
Oh OH Heroes here!! and being made into a movie by uncle Tom--i salute !! good upload Akillheals must have been hard work selecting this moment ;-)
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Not gonna even bother watching this, since none of this actually really happened
Yes, yes, that is true, *but* it still is a pretty cool movie
Just the fact it took 17 tries to land properly shows sully was the only one who could have done it and every pilot should have known that.
There are critic's, spectators, and then, the man in the arena.
He had 1 shot, and hit it when it mattered.
Hero.