Harrison Ford Nearly Causes Enormous Plane Collision By Landing His Plane On A Taxiway
NBC News- Actor Harrison Ford was involved in a potentially serious incident Monday in California as he was piloting his private plane, a single-engine Husky, NBC News has learned.
Ford, an experienced pilot who collects vintage planes, had been instructed to land on runway 20-L at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, but mistakenly aimed for a taxiway, instead. His plane passed over the top of an American Airlines 737 carrying 110 passengers and a six-person crew.
Ford, 74, was heard on air traffic control recordings asking, “Was that airliner meant to be underneath me?”
The incident has prompted an FAA investigation — which could result in a simple warning letter to a suspension of Ford’s pilot’s license.
Alright Han Solo, it’s fucking time to hang up the wings. You flew the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, but now you’re making the skies rather unfriendly. You’re 74 years old. When you’re asking questions like “was that airliner meant to be underneath me?” you’ve officially become a senile pilot, and that’s not a thing that exists. Old Harry can no longer tell the difference between the runway and the parking lot, and I feel like near-collisions in air travel should lead to a one-and-done ban. Like there’s no way he has a history of this, right?
Ford has been involved in a series of crashes and near-crashes while flying aircraft.
In 2015, he crash-landed a World War II-era airplane on a Santa Monica, California, golf course after the engine failed.
What?!?!?! Look at that fucking collapsed juke box! That is not a plane; it is a toy. You pick it up using your thumb and pointer finger and the boy who throws it farthest gets to smooch Ethel Cooper under the porch at the sock hop. How was this tin can cleared to fly? As if Southern Californians didn’t have enough to worry about between the droughts, earthquakes, and pollution. Now they have to add Harrison Ford’s hobby of breaking into aviation museums, rolling out decommissioned exhibits, and taking them for a spin over main street before crash landing on the 9th hole. That’s one HELL of a divot and there’s no chance he replaced it because he’s a diva. But back to the point: there’s a reason base jumpers don’t get nostalgic and use flacked-out, shrapnel-riddled 1942 paratrooper chutes that look like your dad’s underwear. Antique cars are ok to drive in parades; antique planes are not ok to fly, at any time. Still, I’m sure that’s the end of his antics…
He also crash-landed a helicopter in 1999 during a flight lesson in Ventura County, California. And in 2000, Ford’s six-seater Beechcraft Bonanza scraped the runway during an emergency landing at Nebraska’s Lincoln Municipal Airport.
But Ford is revered as an excellent pilot in aviation circles. He has been inducted by the Kiddie Hawk Air Academy as a Living Legend of Aviation.
I’m done. If this résumé screams “living legend of aviation,” then I’m the greatest fucking pilot of all time.