Harrison Ford's Plane Incident CAUGHT ON TAPE — Watch It
Feb. 22 2017, Published 12:08 p.m. ET
Video footage of Harrison Ford's near plane crash reveals the actor narrowly missed a passenger plane during his landing.
As RadarOnline.com previously reported, the Indiana Jones actor narrowly escaped a deadly disaster on Feb. 13 after he mistakenly landed his private plane on a taxiway at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Calif.
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Air traffic controllers had cleared the 74-year-old licensed pilot to land his single engine Husky on runway 20-L.
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Despite the FAA later noting that Ford correctly read back controllers' landing instructions to set down on the runway, he instead headed for a taxiway and narrowly missed hitting American Airlines flight 1546, which carried 116 crew and passengers and was awaiting takeoff for Dallas.
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"Was that airliner meant to be underneath me?" Ford reportedly asked air traffic control after he flew just over the aircraft.
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Of course, this isn’t the first time Ford has been involved in a potentially deadly incident. In 2015, the engine on his World War II vintage plane failed, forcing him to make a crash landing on the Penmar Golf Course in Santa Monica.
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He suffered head injuries and a broken arm in that crash.
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The FAA, which is currently investigating the most recent incident, later released an explanation of the shocking landing.
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"The pilot…landed on a taxiway that runs parallel to the runway, overflying a Boeing 737 that was holding short of the runway," the agency’s statement read in part.
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