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I thoroughly enjoyed this film. I'm surprised the film was ever made, as I imagine the audience would be limited. But, I'm glad it was. It reveals the intensity of sudden emergencies and the chaos they create.

Many of these emergencies were completely out of the control of the pilots. They did nothing to contribute to the problems. As passengers, we wonder how they are working in the cockpit. We could not imagine the drama that unfolds when three highly trained specialists are handed situations that no one anticipated or planned for.

Like a ballet, it looks easy, but it isn't. All the actions are intuitive, because you have to act without thinking...you actions are all hardwired into your brain through training. I think the film portrays accurately the heroism of our airline pilots.

I am a former flight instructor, but I have never seen any similar film that is actually acted out according to the recorded speech and on the same cadence as the pilots experienced in flight.

You can see how the airlines of foreign carriers have no chance of survival in cases where they have to fly by the seat of their pants. They aren't trained to react in situations that aren't spelled out in the flight manuals or handled by computers. Plus, they have cultural communications issues that impede direct intervention in emergencies, which can unfold in seconds.

I urge anyone flying on Asian carriers (plus other countries, I'm sure) to never get on a plane that is flying into bad weather, because the pilots' options are limited by their lack of hands-on training.

To start, I am not part of the family/friends/crew blitz of reviews and message posts we all have to sort through in our research of movies and docs.

This was really fascinating! I am an aviation nerd and I assure you, it doesn't get more dramatic than in the cockpit of an airplane that is in crisis. I have long been obsessed with cockpit voice recordings and I love the fact that the director(s) used them word for word. The sets are a bit low rent, but the recordings are so intriguing you hardly notice.

If you love shows about airplane accidents or other aviation related media, CVR is well worth a look. 6/10

Wow, this is so stupid where do I begin. It's NOT a documentary. It's a couple guys sitting behind a table acting out a skit of a couple pilots flying a plane talking about nothing interesting. I love Air Crash Investigations and Mayday. This is NOTHING like those shows. This is like a really boring low budget play.

It is one thing to read aviation accident reports (and I do) even to the transcripts. It is another to listen to them, and in 1999 someone made a purportedly-awesome stage play where actors read, in a mockup cockpit, with annunciators and stuff, actual CVR transcripts (almost word for word, almost in real time).

I had heard great things about it for CRM (crew resource management) training, and there was a low quality video that was distributed for only that purpose (which I never saw). But it turns out in 2013 they secretly made this and it. Is. Awesome. I know some of these accidents well and it adds an entirely other dimension to them. I stopped during the Aeroperu static tube crash to quote the line in the title to some people I know because as much as reading the report makes you go "wow, that must have sucked" this makes it really personal.

Sometimes uncomfortably so. I mean, it's super not for nervous fliers, and if you are flight crew be careful when you watch it, as you may not sleep. It is very, very well done I think. I also totally agree that it provides a nice launching off point for discussions of CRM, team dynamics, sterile cockpit rules, general crisis management, etc. so may have training value for you, and your coworkers.

All in all, one of the best things I have seen on film in years.

People pick apart the production values. This isn't mayday or any other series with a British guy narrating but it is true to nature. I've been in a aircraft incident and there isn't screaming or praying out loud. You could hear a pin drop. They did a really good job not over dramatizing life and death. Granted it is a dark show, but listening to the the pilots up until that thud is for real. Ok, apparently I have to reach some character limit. It's a good film, you would not be a miss if you watched it. It's dark, but it's a really good representation of how people react to real life. 12345678.