The only hair-raising moment here, is when the co-pilot is halfway sucked out of the cockpit, and that’s over very soon, arriving after a good half-an-hour of people boarding the plane and crew preparing for take-off (hardly riveting stuff). Trying to reach an emergency landing zone must be an unbelievably intense experience for a pilot responsible of the lives of dozens of people, but onscreen it’s just fiddling with knobs on an instrument panel, intercut with scenes of people shouting at microphones in a command center. Cabin depressurization is surely a terrorizing thing to happen in real life, but onscreen it’s just a plane shaking while people scream and hang on to their seats. ![]() The problem with The Captain is that, while the events it depicts must surely have been heart-stopping for the passengers, the pilots, the cabin crew, and their relatives on the ground, when translated to the big screen, they make for meager entertainment. ![]() Less than four months later, Andrew Lau was already re-creating these events for the big screen, surely a record when it comes to rushing to cash in on true events. Yet against all odds, the plane’s pilot (Zhang Hanyu) managed a miraculous emergency landing, with all aboard safe and sound, including the co-pilot. ![]() In the subsequent cabin depressurization, a co-pilot was half-sucked out of the plane and many passengers lost consciousness or succumbed to panic. In May 2018, on a Sichuan Airlines flight from Chongqing to Lhasa, the cockpit windshield shattered suddenly while the plane was 30,000 feet above the Tibetan Plateau.
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