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Harrison Ford in Incident With Passenger Plane at California Airport
nbcnews.com ^
| 2/14/17
| Tom Costello and Mary Emily O'Hara
Posted on 02/14/2017 2:54:29 PM PST by ColdOne
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.
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Time to turn in your pilot license.
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posted on
02/14/2017 2:54:29 PM PST
by
ColdOne
To: ColdOne
“Surrender gracefully the things of youth.”
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posted on
02/14/2017 2:56:07 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: ColdOne
You beat me by less than a minute :-)
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posted on
02/14/2017 2:56:33 PM PST
by
Ciaphas Cain
(The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
To: ColdOne
Depends. I’ve seen taxiways at some these airports that look like the runway.
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posted on
02/14/2017 2:56:42 PM PST
by
PJBankard
To: ColdOne
At age 74, that is going to be mandatory 90 day sit down until he can take a “demonstration of proficiency” check ride.
Was it just me or did he look a little “behind the power curve” in the last big Star Wars movie?
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posted on
02/14/2017 2:57:44 PM PST
by
Strac6
("We sleep safe in our beds only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on the enemy.")
To: ColdOne
Oops wrong runway taxiway.
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posted on
02/14/2017 2:57:48 PM PST
by
Red Steel
To: ColdOne
Hs second incident with a plane. Crashed one several years ago.
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posted on
02/14/2017 2:58:12 PM PST
by
mware
(RETIRED)
To: ColdOne
Give us your keys, Mr. Ford.
For the good of humanity
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posted on
02/14/2017 2:58:16 PM PST
by
Lexington Green
(Sun Tzu Trumps Saul Alinsky)
To: ColdOne
A couple of days ago, two Canadian Air Force fighters were diverted from Tyndall to North West Florida Beaches airport.
They saw the old abandoned Panama City airport and began to land until the air traffic controller at Tyndall told them they were at the wrong airport.
I guess it could happen.
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posted on
02/14/2017 2:58:56 PM PST
by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: ColdOne
Thank God that no one was hurt or killed.
Kind of hard to come back to life like they do in movies. /s
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posted on
02/14/2017 2:59:22 PM PST
by
Dacula
(I have a disease called AWESOME, you would not understand it since you don't have it.)
To: ColdOne
“It’s not the years, it’s the mileage.”
To: ColdOne
Better stay away from the Millennium Falcon.
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posted on
02/14/2017 3:00:41 PM PST
by
Sasparilla
( I'm Not tired of Winning)
To: ColdOne
Well you do have to fly over large passenger jets as they make their way to 20R - You have to come in high and drop down on 20L. Mistaking that taxiway from the terminal to the runways is pretty bad.
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posted on
02/14/2017 3:01:26 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
To: kaehurowing
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posted on
02/14/2017 3:01:57 PM PST
by
Celtic Conservative
(CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
To: ColdOne
I agree. See and avoid is a pretty basic requirement for a private pilot. That can’t be the first time he’s flown into/out of that airport, either.
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posted on
02/14/2017 3:02:13 PM PST
by
TADSLOS
(Reset Underway!)
To: ColdOne
Everybody knows you’re not supposed to fly while smoking weed.
I mean, everybody knows that...right?
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posted on
02/14/2017 3:03:42 PM PST
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Lexington Green
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posted on
02/14/2017 3:04:16 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: ColdOne
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posted on
02/14/2017 3:05:34 PM PST
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: yarddog
I've heard cases of commercial pilots landing airbuses at municipal airports near to much larger commercial airports. In one case the plane had to be disassembledand carried by truck to the airport where it was reassembled. In another the plane had to be stripped of anything not bolted down(and a few things that were, like seats), given a minimal fuel load so it could take off from a too- short runway and make the 3 minute flight to tthe correct airport. CC
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posted on
02/14/2017 3:11:11 PM PST
by
Celtic Conservative
(CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
To: ColdOne
Time to turn in your pilot license. Absolutely! Thank God no one was injured of killed.
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posted on
02/14/2017 3:12:55 PM PST
by
jazusamo
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