Harrison Ford in Incident With Passenger Plane at California Airport

nbcnews.com ^ | 2/14/17 | Tom Costello and Mary Emily O'Hara

[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.

[ColdOne]

Time to turn in your pilot license.

[blueunicorn6]

“Surrender gracefully the things of youth.”

[Ciaphas Cain]

You beat me by less than a minute :-)

[PJBankard]

Depends. I’ve seen taxiways at some these airports that look like the runway.

[Strac6]

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?

[Red Steel]

Oops wrong runway taxiway.

[mware]

Hs second incident with a plane. Crashed one several years ago.

[Lexington Green]

Give us your keys, Mr. Ford.
For the good of humanity

[yarddog]

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.

[Dacula]

Thank God that no one was hurt or killed.

Kind of hard to come back to life like they do in movies. /s

[kaehurowing]

“It’s not the years, it’s the mileage.”

[Sasparilla]

Better stay away from the Millennium Falcon.

[SkyDancer]

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.

[Celtic Conservative]

Very good!

LOL!

CC

[TADSLOS]

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.

[Mariner]

Everybody knows you’re not supposed to fly while smoking weed.

I mean, everybody knows that...right?

[trisham]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ford

He’s 74. This incident may be an indication of his ability to continue piloting planes. It’s unfortunate, but aging isn’t much fun.

[Doogle]

[Celtic Conservative]

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

[jazusamo]

Time to turn in your pilot license.

Absolutely! Thank God no one was injured of killed.