Not sure but this movie looks to be more of a joke (like one of my favourites, Airplane).

Enjoy 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqn2L6kQQt8

It looks like an interesting movie, but what does it have to do with "Capt. Washington VS. Capt. Sullenberger"?

I know all that, but what does it have to do with the movie. Did I miss something in the video clip/trailer?

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Thanks for the tip.


I too was under the impression of this being a serious movie, but a part of me thinks that the Hollywood folks will over-stress the hero theme which e.g. gets supported by the last scene, with the inverted flying plane.   I know of real world barrel rolls, but a constant inverted flight with an airliner?   Don't try this at home.


Besides, Cpt Sully always tried to avoid the hero sticker media tried to attach to him and his crew. And none of them ever said that they were the only ones being able to land that plane. Any good crew can do that. No single hero, but a bunch of true professionals make your every day life safe.   Boring message, I know.

But I'm not sure if they (the movie makers) want to relate to Sully's landing in any way. So see the above as a side note. I was actually wondering the same as Mark, why 'Capt. Washington VS. Capt. Sullenberger'?  
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Either way, maybe my impression from the trailer is wrong and they really focus on the ups and downs of an investigation process, rendering it more of a thriller, dialogue based.

By the way, funny how they've mixed some airplane character traits to avoid being to close to any rw counterpart. Picking an out of production model for their rough representation surely avoided discussions. Seems like legal stuff owns the modern industry and leaves them in fear. So if the film has a political message, it starts right there.  

I think its more to do with blame CoolP, if you remember with Capt. Sullenberger he had to/was forced to accept the blame for the Airbus sinking so quickly s under the pressure he forgot to press a single switch before leaving the cockpit which caused the aircraft to sink a lot quicker and putting the passengers at risk. Any pilot that has alcohol in their blood after a crash will get the blame no matter how much they had the night before imo.

Recent changes to European law is there to put more blame on the flight crew if something goes wrong as making the pilots working day and working week longer is meant to be safer and fight pilot fatigue better but i dont know how that is meant to work.

edit, here is that episode Fedex 705

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaOn1u8wIT0

Half naked women and robots.. i will be watching that one for sure 

I didn't mean for the topic name to be anything else then a joke. 

When I say the MD-80 in a dive I immedeatly thought of Alaska 261. Very sad story.

Chesley Sullenberger and F/O Skiles accomplished what we know to be a one of a kind emergency landing.

For the movie, airliners don't fly very well inverted... 

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I've just tried, in FSX.  

Oh yeah, the El Al 747. Now those guys didn't have many options. Soon after takeoff the trouble started and 'we've lost an engine' received a very different meaning. And once again small parts rendered their fate, although the number count would have been way higher if it had been a passenger plane.

Now regarding the film Evan posted about. I think my only concern is that, for me, dreaded Hollywood scheme to over-stress hero stories and also render them to be ones where the hero lives on. In history, this rarely takes place. Take that Alaska flight. The Captain is dead but made sure that nobody on the ground got hurt.

Who knows, maybe Denzel Washington also fights two robots in the cargo hold and the stewardesses later undress.     Lets watch more realistic films like.. James Bond.