We're back from a brief hiatus with - unbelievably - a film which actually deeply relates to testing! We're joined by Mark Tomlinson, who brings his own experiences of dealing with the National Transportation Safety Board, to discuss a film about a remarkable moment of true-life heroism, and the decisions that we make in the heat of the moment.

The events of the movie give us a chance to get into in-depth discussions about the challenges of testing within regulated industries, developing risk mitigation strategies in life-critical environments, debugging/monitoring, and whether quality is a team effort.

There are remarkably few distractions, although we get into some meta-discussion about whether it was correct to portray the NTSB as pantomime villains, a general critique of Clint Eastwood's agenda, a surprising number of references to metallurgy, and we give Mark an introduction to 1980s UK gameshows.

YouTube trailers for films mentioned:

• Equity
• Miss Sloane
• Flight
• Unforgiven
• Bridges of Madison County
• Every Which Way But Loose
• Million Dollar Baby
• The 15:17 To Paris
• Gran Torino
• Ex Machina
• Deepwater Horizon
• Runaway
• Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle

Miscellaneous links:

• Amazon.co.uk: Captain Chesley B Sullenberger III - Highest Duty
• TestBash Philadelphia 2017
• TestBash San Francisco 2018
• Del Dewar - Dressing Up the Spinning Cat
• Wikipedia: Yanny or Laurel
• Wikipedia: US Airways Flight 1549
• National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Wikipedia: 2015 Shoreham Airshow crash
• AP News: Real-life investigators object to portrayal in 'Sully' movie
• Federal Aviation Administration
• Wikipedia: Hagiography
• YouTube: Clint Eastwood RNC speech interviewing an empty chair
• Earwolf: James Bonding podcast
• /r/MovieDetails: Poster for Gran Torino visible in Sully
• YouTube: Eddie Izzard - Glorious (Birdstrike)
• YouTube: Agile Testing Days 2015: Richard Bradshaw - Automation in Testing
• YouTube: Brendan Gregg - Shouting in the Datacenter
• YouTube: Austin Powers (1, not 2!) - Bathroom Break
• YouTube: Sully EPIC SPEECH
• Wikipedia: The Krypton Factor
• YouTube: The Krypton Factor - Flight simulator round
• YouTube: The Krypton Factor - Rearranging perspex shapes
• YouTube: The Krypton Factor - Tony Slattery and Roger Lloyd Pack in "Dead Ringer" sketch
• RailPlan 2020

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Intro music: Christian Jacob - Sully Suite Outro music: Christian Jacob - Flying Home (Sully's Theme)