In January 2009, a swarm of birds hit a U.S. Airways Airbus A320 that had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York, forcing its pilot, Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, to maneuver a difficult crash landing in the Hudson River. You remember the rest: all 150 passengers survived, and Sullenberger was received as a national hero, earning an invitation to President Obama’s first inauguration and a place in the spotlight as an aviation safety pundit. Now Tom Hanks is playing him in a biopic.