Continuity mistake: When Sully is boarding the aircraft the forward galley has catering in atlas boxes with no flight labels on, when they are done with the demo and the cabin crew secures the galley it has changed to a galley with doors and a boiler. (00:26:27 - 00:30:00)
Continuity mistake: A passenger has a New York Waterways life jacket long before the Thomas Jefferson (first New York Waterways ferry to arrive) has arrived. (00:49:15 - 00:55:14)
Continuity mistake: A girl in blue jumper is on the right of the passenger with golf hat. Next scene she is on the left of the passenger and his elderly father on a cell phone. (00:50:09)
Continuity mistake: While Katie Couric is interviewing Sully, the first shot shows her with a portfolio in her hand and she is not wearing a ring on her left hand. The camera goes to Sully, then back to Katie and suddenly there is a ring on her left hand.
Continuity mistake: When they are evacuating passengers onto the ferry boat, a crew member puts his hat on a passenger in a white shirt. In the next shot and when he says that he is cold he is not wearing a hat. In the very next shot the hat is back on.
Continuity mistake: During passenger boarding the screen (Flight Attendant Panel), located above the forward flight attendant seats is a newer touchscreen one, but when flight attendants are doing safety demo, it changes to the older LED push button type.
Continuity mistake: When Captain Sullenberger is wading through the water towards to aft galley, you can see his pants soaked and the lower half of his short wet. When he returns to the cockpit to collect his jacket and clipboard, his clothes are dry. In all following scenes of the rescue, his clothes are dry.
Continuity mistake: When Sully is checking the aft for anyone left, the flight attendant calling him has a red life vest on. When the camera zooms in as she leaves, she doesn't. When she jumps onto the slide she has it on again.
