By Morris Dean
The trailer for Flight suggests that this 2012 movie directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Denzel Washington as a commercial airline pilot might be an action movie. Indeed, what happens during the movie's single airplane flight unfolds as a harrowing action sequence. Pilot Whip Whitaker must execute the only maneuver apparently possible to prevent the plane from diving into Atlanta and killing everyone aboard—a maneuver that none of the ten other pilots tested afterwards by investigators of the National Transportation Safety Board is able to execute in simulation. The investigators are prepared to class Whitaker's feat as miraculous.
