Miracle Landing on the Hudson
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Watch Date: May 13, 2023
New York has a lot of tragedies. We've got the collapse of Wall Street, 9/11 and now a plane crash on the Hudson. Those are the main three I can think of. When Bob reads this, he'll tell me there was a lot more. He'll list them out. That's what I've got. Pizza Rat dying, maybe?
Everyone lives. Okay? And that's such a good thing. But everyone lives not because of any smart safety procedures. Not because of anyone person. Everyone lives because of a lot of panicked decisions by a group of people that actually had strong moral compasses and put the wellbeing of others ahead of their own - at least if the pool of people interviewed are to be believed. They survived because of pure luck, because they managed to not break apart on the river, because they had a set of pilots that kept their cool, because there wasn't too many rowdy kids on the flight to control.
Knowing everyone lives, knowing there was no major explosion, or trauma, that most people in fact were not seriously injured is good. I am happy, as a human being, for the people who survived, that beyond some severe cases of PTSD, most people emerged from a plane crash unscathed. This is a beautiful thing. It is a miracle. One hundred and fifty five people survived. They should not have. They did.
The 'Miracle on the Hudson', because it is a positive, happy story where no one dies, because it was truly a miracle, doesn't hit that entertainment factor that other more tragic stories do. Maybe because I knew there wasn't that much danger. Maybe because it's possible to be happy for the survival of human life, and disappointed there wasn't more drama and tragedy. The human brain is bizarre. That is not to say that there isn't a reason to interview the historic people that survived a dramatic plane crash. There is a lot of value in this story being shared. But you will never have this group of people, people who put the lives of others ahead of their own, these specific instances of a landing place near a populous city where ferries and rescue crews could rush to help, a plane that hadn't really reached altitude or speed. It's just...it's not going to happen again. You can't take and learn from it. You can't even learn from the failure of the plane, because how often are birds going to fly into an engine?
Okay, probably more than I'd like to think about but still.
I'm glad everyone survived. I think it's an important story to share. I was really moved, and really worried when it happened in real life. But it's easy to joke through it because you know everything will turn out at the end. Everyone's going to live. It's a miracle. So people can talk about dreams making them want to not get on a plane or how, now it started to be scary, after the plane crash, and you can laugh. And you can feel badly that you did after. But it's all good. They live.
Still, it was entertaining, the acting was good, the interviews were from varied perspectives that gave multiple points of view on the crash. The only person who's missing is Sully, but maybe he was sick of being interviewed at that time. I mean, there was a huge investigation into the flight and whether or not he could have done anything differently or was to blame - watch the Tom Hanks movie for more on that - which seems pretty unfair to the man considering everyone lived. So he probably was fairly over interviews at this point.
Give it a watch if you're in to watching disaster films or if you're interested in watching what happens when an event actually manages to pull out the best of humanity - for once.
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