Whip Leadership In Plane Crash

Plane crash, a simple phrase that invokes fear in the thoughts and hearts of many, including me. Before I start my analysis, I want to say that this movie was very hard for me to get through, as I was on an airplane when an engine exploded mid flight. While my experience wasn’t as lethal (luckily no one died) as the one in flight, I have PTSD from my experience, and watching this movie brought a lot back to me. I have a hard time flying now because of that incident, but at the same time I think my experience will help make a much better analysis of this movie. I think ethics in this movie are tough to define though, because of my personal experience. I can see both sides of the story, and will address my feelings on this later on. Whip Leadership
Whip faces a plethora of ethical decisions to make. Drinking is a decision and a dilemma that Whip faces throughout the movie, and constantly has to make an ethical decision whether to drink or not. At the start of his recovery from the crash, we see him dump out and trash all his alcohol at his farm house he is staying at (I’m guessing to be away from the news and paparazzi). He does really well until he starts meeting with attorney and Charlie Anderson and the investigation starts going. As the investigation gets tougher for Whip we see him start to drink more and more, leading to the blackout from the minibar and drugs, at the hotel. We also see Whip make an unethical decision when he goes to visit his ex-wife and son. He does not handle himself well and says hurtful things to them, and accuses his son of just wanting money from him. Personally I think every time he feels the need to contact his druggie friend (Harling?) is an unethical decision, because he just makes the addiction worst. I feel like most of his unethical decisions though come from the drinking and the drugs in fact in the movie Whip states, “I choose to drink! And I blame myself! I am happy to! And you know why? Because I choose to drink! I got an ex-wife and a son I never talk to! And you know why? Because I choose to drink”. This just shows that Whip knows his problem is his drinking. We also see Whip buy alcohol both at a bar and a store, he
Let’s start at he beginning when the plane starts to go down, as this is where I think “good decision” is tough to say. At the start of my paper I said that ethics are hard to define, when it comes to this. Whip was not impaired by the alcohol or drugs while making that landing at all. His head was in the right place, and knew all the technicalities and what to do in that emergency situation. He remained calm and collected and didn’t panic, and looked and acted if he had the whole thing under control. Yes, he did drink but we know from the quote from Hugh Lang, “The FAA and the NTSB took 10 pilots, placed them in simulators, recreated the events that led to this plane falling out of the sky. Do you know how many of them were able to safely land the planes? Not one. Every pilot crashed the aircraft, killed everybody on board. You were the only one who could do it!” Personally, I would much rather have Whip (who did consume drinks and drugs), then have one of those 10 pilots who killed everyone in the simulator, who were not under the influence. I think in an emergency situation like that, ethics are still important, but should not be overshadowed by the fact that he turned an emergency into a miracle for the most part. On the other side though, I can see where it is ethically wrong to drink and fly, much like drunk driving. I just think personally for me, I would have just been grateful to