Date 30/06/2016 - News People
Watch Tom Hanks save the day as Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger in the trailer for Clint Eastwood's newest film. On the morning of January 15th, 2009, pilot Chesley Sullenberger pulled off the impossible by safely easing US Airways Flight 1549 into New York's Hudson River after multiple bird strikes took out his plane's engines and forced an emergency crash-landing. "I've been in the air for 40 years," he grimly says, "but in the end, I'm gonna be judged on 208 seconds."