Penumpang `Flight 1549` Ungkap Pendaratan Darurat di Sungai Hudson
The Hudson Survivor Tells How She Relived the `Harrowing` Experience as She Watched New the Film Sully
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
SULLY, kisah nyata yang luar biasa tentang bagaimana pilot mendaratkan pesawat di tengah New York City, menjadi film terlaris setelah mengangkat kisah pendaratan darurat dari Flight 1549 di Sungai Hudson.
Film yang disutradarai Clint Eastwood mengisahkan tentang pilot Chesley Sullenberger pada 2009 - yang dijuluki 'Miracle on the Hudson' setelah semua orang di pesawat selamat - berhasil meraup pendapatan $35,5 juta pada akhir pekan setelah pemutaran perdana.
Kini, salah satu penumpang yang selamat dari kecelakaan menceritakan pengalaman mencekam saat pendaratan darurat.
Dan sementara Maryann Bruce mengaku surprise pada film karya Clint Eastwood, dalam wawancara eksklusif dengan DailyMail.com dia menantang pandangan bahwa apa yang terjadi adalah pendaratan darurat.
'Ketika saya berbicara dengan orang lain dan mereka berkomentar begini, "Oh, Anda berada di pesawat yang yang melakukan pendaratan darurat di Hudson," Saya seperti, "Tidak sadar. Sejauh yang saya ketahui itu bukanlah pendaratan darurat. Pesawat kami jatuh," 'katanya kepada DailyMail.com.
'Dalam film baik Sully dan [co-pilot] Jeff [Skiles] terus berkata, "Bukan kecelakaan. Ini pendaratan darurat," atau, "Kami mendarat di sungai, bukan di sungai."
"Dan saya seperti, tunggu sebentar. Pesawat jatuh. Saya tidak peduli apa yang Anda katakan."
"Anda dapat melihat bahwa pesawat bagian bawah tercabik yang terjadi dari kursi 14 hingga ke bagian belakang pesawat."
'Pesawat tidak mungkin terbang lagi karena mesinnya mati, sayap yang terbakar. Bagaimana itu bukan disebut kecelakaan? "
Namun Maryann, 56, terus mengulang terima kasih kepada pilot Sullenberger yang menyelamatkan hidupnya, dan dia mengatakan paham kenapa media dan industri penerbangan menyebutnya sebagai kecelakaan, dengan julukan 'Keajaiban di Hudson', sebagai pendaratan darurat.
"Itu spin," katanya. "Pilot tidak ingin mengatakan sebagai kecelakaan karena jika itu kecelakaan, para penumpang akan panik dan ketakutan. Pikirkan berapa banyak orang yang terbang setiap hari. "
Maryann menceritakan bagaimana rasanya berada di pesawat US Airways Flight 1549 ketika pilot mengatakan kepada penumpang tentang 'dampak benturan.'
Dan, sangat dipahami, meskipun dia mengaku sangat emosional ketika ia menyaksikan film yang menghidupkan kembali kenangan buruk tersebut di layar lebar, dia mengaku tidak trauma dengan kejadian tersebut dan tidak takut terbang seperti dilansir MailOnline.
'Dari 140 [dari 155 korban selamat] Saya sudah bicara dengan beberapa dari mereka yang mengaku tidak pernah terbang lagi," kata ibu dua anak ini. "Beberapa penumpang selamat harus mengalami mimpi buruk. Beberapa dari mereka terpaksa berhenti bekerja dan harus menjalani trapi psikologis selama sisa hidupnya.'
SULLY, the incredible true story of how a pilot landed a plane in the middle of New York City, has landed in the box office as successfully as Flight 1549 did on the Hudson River.
The Clint Eastwood movie about Chesley Sullenberger's 2009 feat - which was dubbed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' after everyone on board survived - raked in $35.5 million on its opening weekend.
Now one of the passengers who survived the real-life accident has recounted that terrifying day.
And while Maryann Bruce approved of the Clint Eastwood film, in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com she challenged the view that what happened was an emergency landing.
'When I'm talking to people and they're like, "Oh, you were on that plane that did an emergency landing in the Hudson," I'm like, "Time out. As far as I'm concerned it's not an emergency landing. We crashed,"' she told DailyMail.com.
'In the movie both Sully and [co-pilot] Jeff [Skiles] kept saying, "We didn't crash. It was an emergency landing," or, "We landed on the river, not in the river."
'And I'm like, wait a minute. This plane crashed. I don't care what you say.
'You go look at that plane the bottom is ripped to shreds from probably seat 14 to the back of the plane.
'There's no way that plane flies again because you lost an engine, the wings are on fire. How is that not a crash?'
But Maryann, 56, who is forever grateful that Sullenberger saved her life, says she understands why the media and the aviation industry want to label the incident, dubbed 'the Miracle on the Hudson', an emergency landing.
'It was spin,' she says. 'They didn't want it to be a crash because if it's a crash, people get frightened. Think of how many people fly every day.'
Maryann recounted what it was like to be on US Airways Flight 1549 as the pilot told passengers to 'brace for impact.'
And, remarkably, although she got emotional when she relived the accident on the big screen, she says she is not traumatized by the event and has no fear of flying.
'Of the 140 [out of 155 survivors] I've spoken to, some of them never flew again,' the mum-of-two says. 'Some of them had nightmares. Some left their jobs and see therapists all the time.'
