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Originally Posted by jyl
Apparently in real life the NTSB did the simulation both w/ and w/o including reaction time and concluded quickly that Sully did the right thing.
I read that in the movie, the NTSB initially did only the simulation w/o including reaction time, thought that Sully could have made it to an airport, and had to be persuaded to re-do the simulation w/ including reaction time. Thats the dramatic license part.
As I said, it sounds like a terrific movie. But if it does in fact paint the NTSB investigators as villains, that seems to me like another example of trying to over-dramatize everything to get attention. (I havent seen the movie so I am not sure how heavy handed it is.)
Crash Investigators Pan Their Casting as Villains in ‘Sully’ - Bloomberg
Former NTSB investigators have beef with movie "Sully" - CBS News
If I had to point at an example of a movie that dealt with similarly heroic feats without feeling compelled to invent a government bad guy to be the villain, try Memphis Belle. Or Apollo 13.
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You sound like an air traffic controller! Or are you an NTSB guy?? LOL!
Go see the movie. Keep in mind that in most cases the pilot is guilty until proven innocent and that's what the movie implies as the NTSB suits interrogate Sully and Skiles. Suits always trust the data, the computer, the machine and hate to admit that there is a really good reason they pay pilots as much as they do.
I expect there will be another crap-fest like "Flight" coming out within the next year or two. The suits need the public to go back to thinking airline pilots are drug-using drunken whore-mongers and not real heroes like Sully is.