Captain S's first inclination to immediately restart the APU meant they were in full control of the aircraft the entire time. It also meant the stabilizer systems were always in 100% operation, doing much to prevent a stall. His actions, actions he did just from his "gut" (restarting the APU was like on page 5 or 6 of the checklist, etc.) saved so so so many lives 👍
@@82fdny97 Auxiliary Power Unit, modern commercial aircraft's electronics are powered by one of the planes engine cavitation generating electricity to all systems other then critical controls(So when they lost both engines, as the engines spun down they began to lose power). So by activating the APU it generates very small amount of thrust to keep them moving and power flight instruments.
@@82fdny97 Double Engine Failure was unprecedented at the time. I'm not a pilot so I'm not sure why Turn on APU was page 5-6 at the time, but I'm guessing the general assumption you'd attempt to restart the engines first 'then' turn on the APU if that failed. The QRH Quick Reference Handbook could honestly be a book written in blood sadly. Fortunately it wasn't as important on this flight.
Sully's mind went from "we may end up in the Hudson" to "we're gonna be in the Hudson" to "we are now in the Hudson" in like 40 seconds. THAT is the pinnacle of professionalism.
@@timoooo7320 the movie makes it seem this took waaay longer than what it did in real life. the ATC knew roughly where he was and it's not like there were thousands of eyewitnesses and boats saw it all anyway.
I honestly wasn't expecting much from this movie and was kind of disappointed about it thinking; 'oh great yet another 'reality' movie based off a recent event (that I didn't think was so important at the time). I was pleasantly surprised to be very wrong. This was pretty amazing and very well done.
Great film. The flight and crash scenes are suprisingly accurate with just the right amount of artistic license. The NTSB conflict parts are way off base but without that it'd be be another documentary and not a Hollywood film with a plot and antagonists, and they are well done as well for what they are. Worth a watch.
I like to think we were seeing the NTSB "conflict" through the lens of Sully's own self-doubt. As in, he's an unreliable narrator. But of course, I realize it's just Eastwood creating drama where there wasn't any.
I'm a hot air balloon pilot. At the time this movie came out. I was still in training. I took my check ride. With an examiner fail. I was trying to decide to sell my balloon or take another check ride. Until I watched this movie, that's when I decided that failure was not an option. Today, I am a certified Hot Air Balloon Pilot
Debris from the F/O's mustache was what actually clogged the engines according to the final NTSB accident report. The birds where there by coincidence and took the blame.
How many of y’all looked up Captain Sully’s military history as a pilot?? Go look that up and see the video on the damaged jet he had to land and then you will see why he had co pilot put flaps down and knew the exact angle to keep plane from ripping apart in the water
I remember it was a cold day - 20F or so. It snowed the day before. Hearing about it had hints of 9/11 - another plane crash by the city. I was working in Brooklyn. The plane could have broken up in the water. It didn't. Great job by Sully and Skiles in saving so many lives.
Casting directors get paid soooo much money for the most basic casting decisions anyone could make. "Who should play the pilot in this movie about an airplane accident?" "Oh dude Tom Hanks was in an airplane crash in Castaway and in a spacecraft accident in Apollo 13, let's get him." "Brilliant decision Miriam, here's $800,000 for your talent and skill."
Yes: absolutely amazing what goes on. Acting is not too difficult either if it comes to that (make my living that way). Many are called, few are chosen 😂😂😂😂😂😂
It was no crash, but a ditching. Even on solid ground, there is a difference between a crash and an emergency landing which might lead to damage but doesn't ram the plane into the ground.
@@deepcosmiclove I'm quoting what Sully says in the movie, which I think Ogen was referring to. "It wasn't a crash, it was a forced water landing." I've seen this movie too many times...
Never noticed til now but you can hear the "flight attendants" running through the pre-crash protocol ( I don't know what you call it) Hearing them yelling that is a pretty cool detail, I think.
generally speaking: you will almost never be able to bring the engine nacelles into the water at the same time, which leads to one being ripped off first and the plane cartwheeling into destruction
Weight makes that prohibitive. Aircraft need to be light, or they'll guzzle even more fuel. And deploying it in flight would be weird. Not convinced that's a good idea. (The Korean crash is probably more than a bird strike, based on available data right now, but we'll wait for the report there before we speculate and say stupid things)
Modern high by-pass engines can just about cope with a single bird strike, as in most cases, the majority of the bird goes down the bypass duct and not into the core of the engine. The sheer number of birds involved in this incident meant that both engines suffered catastrophic damage.
This is going to seem nutty but I have never understood "they have to get out a massive paper binder and go through the checklist" when there is a dire emergency and seconds count. Should;t you know what to do? Who has time to go through a checklist in these situations. Do military pilots do this? Do you get out a checklist when you are driving a car? What am I missing here?
There are 'memory items' that pilots are checked on regularly. For a (hopefully very unusual!) event like this, the checklist is required, as if you do not do things in the correct sequence, it may prevent the engines restarting. This is a film, and they may have glossed over the memory items for dramatic tension.
QRH is the quick reaction handbook. This is a bullet list of emergency steps to take in various emergencies. Yes pilots will train for emergencies but the QRH is belt and braces. This is a complex network of systems including two engines and three hydraulic systems - the QRH is there to speed up decision making. If something on a car breaks 99% of the time it's very low risk but if something on a plane breaks there are layers of redundancy but if they fail too then risks are exponentially higher.
"What am I missing here?" This is what professionalism looks like when you study what makes good responses in complicated situations. They do it because it's been proven to work.
I know it's probably dramatization, but who is this ATC throwing out endless runways while they're so low altitude they're dropping off radar with no engines? "Emergency services have been notified and are en route" should have been his first priority then, and probably the only thing he could do to concretely improve the situation at that point.
Their job is to inform the captain with as many options as possible so that the _captain_ can choose the best solution. Only the captain knows the full extent of the situation. For all the ATC knows, the reported altitude could be wrong, the radar signal might have dropped for other reasons, etc etc. Even after hearing the captain say "we're gonna be in the hudson", the ATC cannot assume that this is a fait accompli - the captain might be speaking out of panic, or might change his mind if another option appears viable. So the best the ATC can do is continue to provide options and assist the Captain until they have absolute confirmation that the aircraft is no longer in the air.
Those incompetent investigators tried to blame Sully for going in water. They were so stupid, instead of praising him they tried to bury him. They all should have been fired.
It is a good example of how people judge you based on your economic situation He was late in life, nearing retirement from the airline He was heavy in debt, underwater, His wife was not happy and considering a divorce He wanted to start his own consulting business He had borrowed money to do it He wasn't getting any clients He flew in the day before and he commented to the co-pilot about if he could land on the Hudson River I don't know exactly what he said If it was just a observation, just a comment that he didn't mean anything or if it was in an emergency could I land on the river I don't think anyone knows exactly what he was thinking or how much he was thinking about it But, the airline heard about it on the FDR and the NTSB heard about it and there were serious questions about if he did this deliberately and what his mental status was. They were talking among themselves behind closed doors about the likelyhood he actually deliberately flew into the birds The NTSB and the airline and the airport and the State all wanted to blame him and they never wanted him to fly again They wanted him destroyed, homeless, penny less, divorced, etc. The airline was REALLY angry that the public saw him as a hero They were hell bent on not letting him fly and they had their PR department telling them they would be crushed if they were to not let him fly again. They reluctantly embraced him and they settled quietly with all the passengers and they were paid for the PR photo ops. I don't fly anymore and never will because I know how bad it is. And if I were on that flight, there is no amount of money they could offer to get me to go on that PR flight I know that if they had found Sully guilty, the co-pilot would also be guilty and he knew it. He was going to go along with Sully to save himself regardless of what really happened. I am glad I don't fly anymore It is just too dangerous
From what I understand from the ACI Episode it was relatively calm for a crash. Passengers seated in the exit rows reassured others that they were ready to open them prior to impact and others were heard telling people to ‘help each other’ as they evacuated the plane. One passenger took a woman’s baby so that she could brace properly, likely willing to risk his safety to protect the two from harm. Of course there would also be the silent majority who were also contemplating their final moments and thinking about loved ones, likely assuming their death was imminent too, at the end of the day there’s no point crying over spilt milk.
If I've learned anything in life, it's that you should never go anywhere with Tom Hanks. 😂😂😂
Well he always makes it in the end
Pedo
But if you do, he will survive.
@@leonkernan He didn't in Saving Private Ryan.
Except Vietnam.
Captain S's first inclination to immediately restart the APU meant they were in full control of the aircraft the entire time. It also meant the stabilizer systems were always in 100% operation, doing much to prevent a stall. His actions, actions he did just from his "gut" (restarting the APU was like on page 5 or 6 of the checklist, etc.) saved so so so many lives 👍
What’s APU?
@@82fdny97 Auxiliary Power Unit, modern commercial aircraft's electronics are powered by one of the planes engine cavitation generating electricity to all systems other then critical controls(So when they lost both engines, as the engines spun down they began to lose power). So by activating the APU it generates very small amount of thrust to keep them moving and power flight instruments.
@ why wouldn’t that by first?
Bc people that made that book probably never flew a jet.@82fdny97
@@82fdny97 Double Engine Failure was unprecedented at the time. I'm not a pilot so I'm not sure why Turn on APU was page 5-6 at the time, but I'm guessing the general assumption you'd attempt to restart the engines first 'then' turn on the APU if that failed.
The QRH Quick Reference Handbook could honestly be a book written in blood sadly. Fortunately it wasn't as important on this flight.
Sully's mind went from "we may end up in the Hudson" to "we're gonna be in the Hudson" to "we are now in the Hudson" in like 40 seconds. THAT is the pinnacle of professionalism.
His communication was not great. He should have communicated better so emergency services know where he is and going to
@@timoooo7320 lol, you are clearly on drugs, or at least I hope you are..! yikes
@@timoooo7320 Sure, but as the saying goes: Aviate, navigate, communicate.
He flew the plane and ended up saving everyone.
@@timoooo7320 the movie makes it seem this took waaay longer than what it did in real life. the ATC knew roughly where he was and it's not like there were thousands of eyewitnesses and boats saw it all anyway.
@@timoooo7320 he did nothing wrong , he stated "we are going to be in the Hudson" - thats all the time he had to tell ATC
I honestly wasn't expecting much from this movie and was kind of disappointed about it thinking; 'oh great yet another 'reality' movie based off a recent event (that I didn't think was so important at the time). I was pleasantly surprised to be very wrong. This was pretty amazing and very well done.
Your opinion is soooo interesting
Great film. The flight and crash scenes are suprisingly accurate with just the right amount of artistic license. The NTSB conflict parts are way off base but without that it'd be be another documentary and not a Hollywood film with a plot and antagonists, and they are well done as well for what they are.
Worth a watch.
Yeah they really demonized the NTSB
I like to think we were seeing the NTSB "conflict" through the lens of Sully's own self-doubt. As in, he's an unreliable narrator.
But of course, I realize it's just Eastwood creating drama where there wasn't any.
And jungle book was made with real monkeys
1:09 is such a cool shot of the plane making a turn.
I'm a hot air balloon pilot. At the time this movie came out.
I was still in training. I took my check ride. With an examiner fail.
I was trying to decide to sell my balloon or take another check ride. Until I watched this movie, that's when I decided that failure was not an option. Today, I am a certified Hot Air Balloon Pilot
Thanks for this excellent clip
one of the most incredible commercial aviation feats ever
Thank you for the clip!
Change the title, this was a controlled water landing, not a crash, as Sully himself said.
It's called ditching. And there's no shame in it.
My mother-in-law had to ditch like this on her broom a few years ago. She hit one of those delivery drones and lost control.
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What is this, the Catskills? Shecky Greene over here.
😂😂😂😂
Those passengers are dam lucky they had pilots with mustaches and pilot names.
😂😂😂😂😂
The sound design is awesome
Sir, can we land it on my huge mustache?😂😂😂
The 100th time watching this is still just as amazing and impressive as the first time.
Debris from the F/O's mustache was what actually clogged the engines according to the final NTSB accident report. The birds where there by coincidence and took the blame.
Hahahahahhaaha
You know it's a good movie too when the mustaches get their own credits.
@@ronniecoleman2342 lol
With great mustache comes great responsibility.
You do what you got to do.
Great airmanship.
I love watching this, pure skill, hard to call a controlled landing like that a crash
How many of y’all looked up Captain Sully’s military history as a pilot?? Go look that up and see the video on the damaged jet he had to land and then you will see why he had co pilot put flaps down and knew the exact angle to keep plane from ripping apart in the water
I remember it was a cold day - 20F or so. It snowed the day before. Hearing about it had hints of 9/11 - another plane crash by the city. I was working in Brooklyn. The plane could have broken up in the water. It didn't. Great job by Sully and Skiles in saving so many lives.
-20 yeah right bud!!!
Thank god it was an Airbus and not a Boeing
Captain Sullinberger is my hero.😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Casting directors get paid soooo much money for the most basic casting decisions anyone could make. "Who should play the pilot in this movie about an airplane accident?" "Oh dude Tom Hanks was in an airplane crash in Castaway and in a spacecraft accident in Apollo 13, let's get him." "Brilliant decision Miriam, here's $800,000 for your talent and skill."
Yes: absolutely amazing what goes on. Acting is not too difficult either if it comes to that (make my living that way). Many are called, few are chosen 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Going in the drink!
It was no crash, but a ditching. Even on solid ground, there is a difference between a crash and an emergency landing which might lead to damage but doesn't ram the plane into the ground.
Why did'nt he make full flaps?
without power that would be a huge amount of drag Ive never seen a dead stick landing with full flaps
@@mattmopar440 Thank you. I would have thought that full flaps would enhance portability (lift)
This is not the full scene. At least the beginning is heavily edited with shots missing. Did not check the rest of the clip. The original is better.
I can't believe this was 16 years ago
"That wasn't a crash but an emergency landing"
I think you have to define that as a crash landing.
Forced water landing
@@ChristopherBurtraw How about Ditching?
@@deepcosmiclove I'm quoting what Sully says in the movie, which I think Ogen was referring to.
"It wasn't a crash, it was a forced water landing."
I've seen this movie too many times...
@ Really good production values. Worth watching a few times. Right now I'm addicted to Oppenheimer.
We're going to be in the Hudson.
Thank you for flying Spirit Airlines! 😂
Never noticed til now but you can hear the "flight attendants" running through the pre-crash protocol ( I don't know what you call it)
Hearing them yelling that is a pretty cool detail, I think.
Understated, terrific scene - total pros
How hard is it to land a plane on water? what are the survival chances?
5 percent or so. It's almost a guaranteed catastrophe. They were all incredibly fortunate and very VERY professional.
generally speaking: you will almost never be able to bring the engine nacelles into the water at the same time, which leads to one being ripped off first and the plane cartwheeling into destruction
Which runway?
Hudson...
Which runway?
Hudson..
Say again? Which runway?
Hudson.
Hanks needs to take the bus next time. Castaway and Sully.
There should be a bird indicator and protective shudder that closes the air intake on the engines.
Weight makes that prohibitive. Aircraft need to be light, or they'll guzzle even more fuel. And deploying it in flight would be weird. Not convinced that's a good idea. (The Korean crash is probably more than a bird strike, based on available data right now, but we'll wait for the report there before we speculate and say stupid things)
Or a Vulcan canon to just take the birds out from a distance.
Modern high by-pass engines can just about cope with a single bird strike, as in most cases, the majority of the bird goes down the bypass duct and not into the core of the engine. The sheer number of birds involved in this incident meant that both engines suffered catastrophic damage.
What happened then??
Turn over the Hudson. 4:01
Lepaz
This is going to seem nutty but I have never understood "they have to get out a massive paper binder and go through the checklist" when there is a dire emergency and seconds count. Should;t you know what to do? Who has time to go through a checklist in these situations. Do military pilots do this? Do you get out a checklist when you are driving a car? What am I missing here?
There are 'memory items' that pilots are checked on regularly. For a (hopefully very unusual!) event like this, the checklist is required, as if you do not do things in the correct sequence, it may prevent the engines restarting. This is a film, and they may have glossed over the memory items for dramatic tension.
QRH is the quick reaction handbook. This is a bullet list of emergency steps to take in various emergencies. Yes pilots will train for emergencies but the QRH is belt and braces. This is a complex network of systems including two engines and three hydraulic systems - the QRH is there to speed up decision making.
If something on a car breaks 99% of the time it's very low risk but if something on a plane breaks there are layers of redundancy but if they fail too then risks are exponentially higher.
"What am I missing here?" This is what professionalism looks like when you study what makes good responses in complicated situations. They do it because it's been proven to work.
1:10 Sound of engines without engines
I know it's probably dramatization, but who is this ATC throwing out endless runways while they're so low altitude they're dropping off radar with no engines? "Emergency services have been notified and are en route" should have been his first priority then, and probably the only thing he could do to concretely improve the situation at that point.
Bc they panic they're human. They don't want to plane to crash, they feel responsible and want to help.
Their job is to inform the captain with as many options as possible so that the _captain_ can choose the best solution. Only the captain knows the full extent of the situation. For all the ATC knows, the reported altitude could be wrong, the radar signal might have dropped for other reasons, etc etc. Even after hearing the captain say "we're gonna be in the hudson", the ATC cannot assume that this is a fait accompli - the captain might be speaking out of panic, or might change his mind if another option appears viable. So the best the ATC can do is continue to provide options and assist the Captain until they have absolute confirmation that the aircraft is no longer in the air.
It’s an exact transcript of the actual ATC so, nope it’s not a dramatisation.
Sugar mustache
Those incompetent investigators tried to blame Sully for going in water. They were so stupid, instead of praising him they tried to bury him. They all should have been fired.
That didn't really happen. It was done in the movie for dramatic effect.
Dumb
It is a good example of how people judge you based on your economic situation
He was late in life, nearing retirement from the airline
He was heavy in debt, underwater,
His wife was not happy and considering a divorce
He wanted to start his own consulting business
He had borrowed money to do it
He wasn't getting any clients
He flew in the day before and he commented to the co-pilot about if he could land on the Hudson River
I don't know exactly what he said
If it was just a observation, just a comment that he didn't mean anything or if it was in an emergency could I land on the river
I don't think anyone knows exactly what he was thinking or how much he was thinking about it
But, the airline heard about it on the FDR and the NTSB heard about it and there were serious questions about if he did this deliberately and what his mental status was.
They were talking among themselves behind closed doors about the likelyhood he actually deliberately flew into the birds
The NTSB and the airline and the airport and the State all wanted to blame him and they never wanted him to fly again
They wanted him destroyed, homeless, penny less, divorced, etc.
The airline was REALLY angry that the public saw him as a hero
They were hell bent on not letting him fly and they had their PR department telling them they would be crushed if they were to not let him fly again.
They reluctantly embraced him and they settled quietly with all the passengers and they were paid for the PR photo ops.
I don't fly anymore and never will because I know how bad it is. And if I were on that flight, there is no amount of money they could offer to get me to go on that PR flight
I know that if they had found Sully guilty, the co-pilot would also be guilty and he knew it.
He was going to go along with Sully to save himself regardless of what really happened.
I am glad I don't fly anymore
It is just too dangerous
Cudda been so much better. Makes it seem tame since they don’t show any distressed passengers.
They did earlier in the movie
This is just one scene. The crash is depicted several times in the movie from different perspectives. Go watch the movie before you complain.
From what I understand from the ACI Episode it was relatively calm for a crash. Passengers seated in the exit rows reassured others that they were ready to open them prior to impact and others were heard telling people to ‘help each other’ as they evacuated the plane. One passenger took a woman’s baby so that she could brace properly, likely willing to risk his safety to protect the two from harm.
Of course there would also be the silent majority who were also contemplating their final moments and thinking about loved ones, likely assuming their death was imminent too, at the end of the day there’s no point crying over spilt milk.
Have you seen the movie dude if not watch and then comment
@ that’s a cute suggestion. Try holding my ass
Hero…..😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂