Flight 93 Movie Netflix

[Ophelia Gurin]

Can anyone tell me what apps are blocked when using the SW WiFi on a flight? Is it possible to stream from Hulu or the ESPN App? I know ESPN is one of the channels on the Free In-Flight Entertainment, but the ESPN app has more content. I'll be flying a total of 8 hours on a Saturday and am wondering what my options are for watching football? Is purchasing the WiFi worth it or a waste in this situation? If it is, then I am relegated to games on Fox, CBS, NBC and ESPN, correct?

The reason I ask is the game I'd really like to see is on ABC and will start after the flight begins and likely be over or close to the end when we land in San Jose. Am I out of luck on that game?

Lastly, what is the reliability of watching a game on one of the aforementioned Free channels? Has anyone flown on a Saturday or Sunday since this football season started that can share?

Thanks in advance
Chris

2) I suspect that anything that is a signal "hog" won't work. The amount of bandwidth is limited as it is, so 1 or 2 people streaming would basically shut down the service for everyone on the plane. Thus I suspect that streaming is out.

To answer your question about reliability, when the service is working, which seems to be more often, but is still hit and miss, the free TV is pretty good, especially when cruising. You'll experience some interruptions when taking off or landing, but the time in between is pretty good. If however the system is down or unavailable for your flight then you're just out of luck. And as others have said, streaming other video is not going to work.

According to news reports at the time, the hijacking was not only the longest-lasting in Latin American history, but also the longest in distance. Having diverted several times in a number of different countries, the plane was hijacked for nearly three days, wherein it traversed more than 10,000 miles.

During its roughly 60-hour tour, the plane made multiple crew changes to swap out pilots and flight attendants, and the hijackers released passengers across several stops. The plane reportedly landed in Medelln, Colombia; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Lima, Peru; Asuncon, Paraguay; Resistencia, Mendoza, and Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Oranjestad, Aruba. All those held captive were let go or managed to flee by the time the plane landed one last time in Argentina, where Solano Lpez was arrested. Borja, alleged to have jumped out of the plane during a brief stop in Resistencia, has never been found.

"The tale is not for the faint of heart: For those not familiar with the story, 'Society of the Snow' involves graphic depictions of the accident and what the victims had to do to keep from starving to death, including cannibalism," said Netflix about the film.

"Society of the Snow," which closed out the Venice Film Festival in September, is inspired by Flight 571, which was carrying a Uruguayan rugby team and their friends and family when it crashed in a remote part of the Andes Mountains in 1972, instantly killing a dozen passengers. Several others died of their injuries soon after.

Incredibly, two survivors, Nando Parado and Roberto Canessa, traversed mountains and glaciers and hiked nearly 40 miles without proper gear to eventually get help. In the end, 16 of the 45 people on board survived.

The new film is based on Uruguayan author and journalist Pablo Vierci's 2008 book, "La Sociedad de la Nieve." While Vierci himself was not on the flight, he attended Stella Maris College in Montevideo, Uruguay, with flight survivors, who gave him firsthand accounts of their ordeal, according to Forbes.

"I remember having conversations with the other writers asking them not to alter the facts to make it more appealing to the audience and instead focus more on understanding the psychology behind what they did, and show that on the screen," Bayona said.

The longest mountain range in the world at about 4,500 miles, the Andes are located along the entire western coast of South America, spanning seven countries: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, according to LiveScience.

Flight is a 2012 American drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by John Gatins and produced by Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, Steve Starkey, Zemeckis, and Jack Rapke. The film stars Denzel Washington as William "Whip" Whitaker Sr., an alcoholic airline pilot who miraculously crash-lands his plane after a mechanical failure, saving nearly everyone on board. Although hailed a hero, an investigation soon begins to cast the captain in a different light.

Flight premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 14, 2012, and was theatrically released the following month on November 2. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised Washington's performance and Zemeckis' return to live-action filmmaking, his first such film since Cast Away and What Lies Beneath in 2000. The film was also a commercial success, grossing $161.8 million against a production budget of $31 million. Flight appeared on multiple critics' year-end top ten lists and received two nominations at the 85th Academy Awards for Best Actor (Washington) and Best Original Screenplay (Gatins).[1][2]

Airline pilot Captain Whip Whitaker snorts cocaine to stay alert after a long night of drinking in his Orlando hotel room. He pilots SouthJetAir Flight 227 to Atlanta, which experiences severe turbulence during takeoff. Co-pilot Ken Evans takes over while Whip discreetly mixes vodka in his orange juice and takes a nap. He is jolted awake as the plane goes into a steep dive. Whip regains control by pulling out of the dive into inverted flight and makes a controlled crash-landing in an open field, hitting his head and losing consciousness on impact.

Whip awakens in an Atlanta hospital with moderate injuries and is greeted by his old friend Charlie Anderson, who represents the airline's pilots union. He tells Whip that he managed to save 96 out of 102, losing two crew members and four passengers, but mentions Evans is in a coma. Whip sneaks away for a cigarette and meets Nicole Maggen, a heroin addict recovering from an overdose in the same hospital. The next morning, his friend and drug dealer Harling Mays picks him up from the hospital.

Having retired to his late father's farm, Whip meets Charlie and attorney Hugh Lang, who explain that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) performed a drug test while he was unconscious. Results showed that Whip was intoxicated during the flight, although Hugh gets the toxicology report voided on technical grounds. Whip visits and becomes intimate with Nicole, but his drinking habits clash with Nicole's attempts to stay drug-free. Later, he attends a funeral for Katerina, a flight attendant who died in the crash, and with whom Whip had spent the night before the incident. He sees a surviving crew member, Margaret, and asks her to tell the NTSB that he was sober.

Whip pays a visit to Evans after he awakens from his coma. Evans has likely lost much of his ability to walk and may never pilot an airplane again. Although upset, Evans has no intention of telling the NTSB that Whip was drinking. Nicole decides to separate from Whip after he fails to stay sober and he spontaneously drives to the home of his ex-wife and son, both of whom resent him. Hounded by the media, he stays with Charlie until the NTSB hearing, vowing not to drink. The night before the hearing, Charlie and Hugh move Whip to a guarded hotel room with no alcohol. He finds the door to an adjacent room unlocked and raids the minibar there.

The next morning, Charlie discovers Whip passed out drunk. Whip and Charlie call Harling to provide Whip with cocaine, hoping to get him alert enough to make it through the hearing. At the hearing, lead NTSB investigator Ellen Block explains that a damaged elevator assembly jackscrew was the primary cause of the crash. She commends Whip on his valor and skill, noting that no other pilot was able to land the plane in simulations of the crash. She then reveals that two empty vodka bottles were found in the plane's trash, despite beverages not being served to passengers, and that Whip's blood test was excluded for technical reasons. She then states the only other member of the crew to test positive for alcohol was Katerina. Whip pauses, unable to bring himself to blame Katerina for his actions. He collects himself and comes clean, admitting to being intoxicated the day of the crash. A tearful Whip also admits that he is presently drunk and has a problem, coming to terms with his alcoholism.

Thirteen months later, an imprisoned Whip is lecturing a support group of fellow inmates. He mentions that not all of the deceased victims' families have come to forgive him, but he is glad to be sober and having done the right thing. He is also working to rebuild his relationships with Nicole and his son, who visits to interview Whip for a college application essay. He begins by asking, "Who are you?" As a plane flies overhead, Whip replies, "That's a good question."

Zemeckis entered negotiations to direct Flight in April 2011,[3] and by early June had accepted, with Denzel Washington about to finalize his own deal.[4] It was the first time that Zemeckis and Washington had worked together on a motion picture.

By mid-September 2011, Kelly Reilly was in negotiations to play the female lead,[5] with Don Cheadle,[6] Bruce Greenwood,[6] and John Goodman[7] joining later in the month, and Melissa Leo and James Badge Dale in final negotiations.[8] Screenwriter John Gatins said in early October 2011 that production would begin mid-month.[9] Flight was largely filmed on location near Atlanta, Georgia over 45 days in November 2011.[10] The film was produced with a relatively small budget of $31 million, which Zemeckis calculated to be his smallest in inflation-adjusted dollars since 1980, made possible because of tax rebates from Georgia and because Zemeckis and Washington waived their customary fees.[10]

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