Sully

Sully (2016)

17 mistakes since 20 Mar '17, 00:00

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Factual error: Scenes of the CGI Airbus A320 do not show the RAT (Ram Air Turbine) deployed. When the A320 loses power in both engines, the RAT automatically deploys to provide minimal electrical power to the plane. (01:20:05)

Factual error: During the evacuation scenes there are several scenes where there are leaves on the trees. This happened in January.

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Continuity mistake: When they are evacuating passengers onto the ferry boat, a crew member puts his hat on a passenger in a white shirt. In the next shot and when he says that he is cold he is not wearing a hat. In the very next shot the hat is back on.

Continuity mistake: When Sully is boarding the aircraft the forward galley has catering in atlas boxes with no flight labels on, when they are done with the demo and the cabin crew secures the galley it has changed to a galley with doors and a boiler. (00:26:27 - 00:30:00)

Continuity mistake: When Captain Sullenberger is wading through the water towards to aft galley, you can see his pants soaked and the lower half of his short wet. When he returns to the cockpit to collect his jacket and clipboard, his clothes are dry. In all following scenes of the rescue, his clothes are dry.

Factual error: During the hearing where Sully and Skilles are listening to the recording of their conversations, we are given a flashback of the actual event. As the US Airways jet is taking off LaGuardia, we are briefly given a shot of the NYC skyline, with One World Trade Center appearing fully complete. One World Trade Center did not appear fully complete like this until mid-2013, and in 2009 (during the events of the film) construction on it had barely reached street level. (01:18:50)

Other mistake: When Sully gets on the plane, his jacket / coat fall off the luggage he is pulling. Even the flight attendants do not realised what happened. (00:27:28)

Factual error: If you look at the takeoff seen you can see an American Airlines 737 800 in the new livery despite this move taking place before American having their new livery.

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Continuity mistake: When Sully is checking the aft for anyone left, the flight attendant calling him has a red life vest on. When the camera zooms in as she leaves, she doesn't. When she jumps onto the slide she has it on again.

Other mistake: When the movie flashes back to the plane taking off from LaGuardia, the attitude indicator (artificial horizon) shows level flight. After the landing gear is raised, it correctly shows the plane in a climb.

Factual error: When Sully decides to land in the Hudson River, the aircraft is approaching the George Washington Bridge the Ground Proximity Warning System advises to the pilots "Obstacle, Obstacle." This is correct; however, after the aircraft clears the bridge, the system then announces "Clear of conflict." This is incorrect, because the GPWS doesn't advise when clear of terrain. The Traffic Collision Avoidance System advises when clear of conflicts, which is only between aircraft.

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Continuity mistake: A girl in blue jumper is on the right of the passenger with golf hat. Next scene she is on the left of the passenger and his elderly father on a cell phone. (00:50:09)

Factual error: During the flashback to the F-4 flight emergency, the visuals are inconsistent with the dialogue: they are approaching runway 21, which has a runway heading of 205 to 214, and the visuals before the dialogue shows them lined up with the runway. The dialogue of Sully's back seater is "Heading 020, five miles out, sir." This is 170° away from the runway heading, almost the opposite direction. (00:41:31)

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Continuity mistake: A passenger has a New York Waterways life jacket long before the Thomas Jefferson (first New York Waterways ferry to arrive) has arrived. (00:49:15 - 00:55:14)

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Other mistake: During the F-4 emergency flashback, Nellis Tower has cleared them to land on Runway 21, however the runway is marked 22. (00:40:57 - 00:42:05)

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Factual error: A (white) iPhone 3GS is shown after passengers are rescued by the American Red Cross, but that iPhone model was only presented during the summer of 2009, whereas the landing on the Hudson happened in January. The iPhone 3GS was the first iPhone also available in white.

Factual error: When Sully approaches the airport vendor for a sandwich we see a souvenir orange New York license plate reading "Times Sq." New York didn't introduce the new orange plates until April 2010.

Charles Porter: Mr. Skiles, is there anything you would have done differently?
Jeff Skiles: Yes. I'd do it in July.

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Trivia: During the several scenes where the pilots are communicating with Air Traffic Control, they are always addressed as flight 1549. During the real incident, however, both the pilots and controllers misspoke, labeling the flight number as both 1529 and 1539. This was likely due to the intensely stressful situation.

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