每一天,八万架飞机在空中穿梭,世界各地有一千万人乘坐飞机出行。尽管技术愈发成熟先进,飞行日趋安全,紧急事故还是在所难免。本片细数前几年内最惊险的十大降落事件,利用电脑技术高度还原飞行员和乘客如何在关键时刻死里逃生,探讨导致事故的原因,其中既有人力尚不能控制的地形、天气原因,也有人为疏忽错误的原因。虽然这些迫降事件都很可怕,所幸全员生还,无人死亡。
Flying remains the safest way to travel, but a 10-year study by Boeing shows that more than half of fatal air crashes happen during approach and landing - eight times more deadly than take-off fatalities. ...
In this powerful documentary, Mama Yang, an 84-year-old woman living in New York, finds herself in correspondence with 45 high security prison inmates she views as her own children. Most are Chinese American immigrants, and see in Mama Yang a mother figure they never knew before they stepped through prison walls.
For Mama Yang though, the story is about more than Christian charity. She had already lived a full life in Taiwan when her husband died at age sixty and her son lost their house in a financial blunder. She moved to the US to start anew and lives with a Taiwanese American granddaughter that remains distant. In a film marked by family separations, Mama Yang writes letters – whether to the incarcerated or to her own granddaughter – to heal lifetimes of wounds.