Why the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ in the new movie Sully was no crash landing

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news: 10 news outlets
twitter: 48 X users
facebook: 4 Facebook pages

wikipedia: 4 Wikipedia pages
reddit: 3 Redditors

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Title	Why the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ in the new movie Sully was no crash landing
Published by	The Conversation
DOI	10.64628/aa.mqveufjwd
Authors	Grant, Eryn, Salmon, Paul, Stevens, Nicholas
Abstract	The movie Sully, out today, tells the story of Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger who landed an Airbus A320-214 in New York's Hudson River. To accident experts, this was no crash landing.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
Australia	15	31%
United States	4	8%
India	3	6%
France	2	4%
Greece	2	4%
United Kingdom	2	4%
Italy	1	2%
Brazil	1	2%
New Zealand	1	2%
Other	3	6%
Unknown	14	29%

Demographic breakdown

Type
Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	34	71%
Scientists	8	17%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	4	8%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	2	4%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 118. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 March 2024.

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