Chesley Sullenberger is the man who realized an exploit in 2009: the emergency sea landing of an Airbus A320 on Hudson River which lines New York. It was January 15th, 2009, at very exactly 15:30 am and 43 seconds. The pilot remembers it as if it was yesterday. A violent shock with wild goose destroyed both turbojet engines two minutes after the take-off of the airport of LaGuardia. Sully, as call him his close friends, had to make a fast choice: trying to reunite the airport, with the risk to crash, or trying to put the plane on Hudson. It is this option which he chose. He managed to save 155 passengers and crew members.
Considered as a hero, Sully was snatched by a sudden fame which he had to learn to tame. The mayor of the time, Michael Bloomberg, symbolically put back him the keys of New York. He was entitled to a phone call of president George Bush, and was invited in the nomination of Barack Obama, five days after the "miracle of Hudson". Since, he wrote two best-sellers, "Highest Duty" and "Making tea difference", and works as an expert in flight safety and investigator on plane crashes today. But if he redoes to speak about him in 2016, it is especially because his history must to be carried in the cinema by Clint Eastwood, with the movie "Sully". His character is played by the actor Tom Hanks: spotless white hair, small mustache, assured approach, very straight head, and especially this Olympian peace, the resemblance is completed.
Chesley Sullenberger participated in the writing of the script, several times reshaped before he is subjected to Clint Eastwood's assistant, then to the director's (je crois). The scenario sticks as much as possible on the reality; dialogues are inspired by the recordings of the exchanges between the cockpit and the control tower. He also accompanied Clint Eastwood and the actors Tom Hanks and Aaron Eckhart in a flight simulator, to indicate them how sitting down, speaking, moving in a cockpit.
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