"This is the captain. Brace for impact."
Hello everyone!
Now, I will admit - generally speaking I don't fly often. Mostly because I have never had much opportunity, and as a second point because I have not really had much reason to, to begin with.
But somehow I found myself rather intrigued by the TV show Mayday, which mostly describes air crash investigations after the disasters that have taken place during the years since airplanes have become the usual mode of transport.
It's not exactly something that makes sense, but bear with me here.
At one point, I accidentally stumbled across the episode that talked about a landing on the Hudson river. I was intrigued - was that even possible? Normally, when you imagine several hundred tons of aircraft landing on water, the mental image is that it's going to break apart, violently, water being like concrete at those speeds and altitudes.
Somehow, however, this plane managed it - and so when news broke that Tom Hanks would be playing the pilot from that same situation in a biopic, Sully, I was so on board the plane. Pun intended.
