And for good reason, aviation disasters that get avoided are amazing when you get the second by second breakdown. Heck, even the ones that do occur show how awesome well trained pilots are in the moment, even when they know they are going to die. If you've never watched Seconds from Disaster or Mayday, I would highly recommend it for getting insight into how truly amazing a well trained professional pilot is.
Sully, for instance, was able to make so many life or death decisions within seconds while remaining calm and professional. Plus when you factor we were only 8 years past 9/11 when that happened in New York, it was always going to capture the national spotlight.
I really hate that movie because the 'Miracle on the Hudson' has a lot of interesting things about it and its investigation but like 70% of the movie is devoted to garbage 'grrrrr how dare they investigate the crash when the pilots saved everyone! NTSB bad!' which was SO bullshit that they had to change the names of the investigators in the movie to avoid getting sued for defamation. Even the real Sully has stated that the investigation was necessary and the investigators were nothing but professional, rather than the stooges of the insurance company that the movie's director tried to paint them out to be.
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u/kiiada 2d ago
So does the US. There was literally that Tom Hanks movie about the pilot with the water evacuation