Harrison Ford made his name as Millennium Falcon-flying smuggler Han Solo and the adventurous archaeologist Indiana Jones, but off-camera the 74-year-old has been getting up to some mischief of his own. After crash-landing his plane in 2015 – an incident in which the star broke his arms and suffered memory loss – Ford has now got into problems at John Wayne airport, Orange County, after mistakenly landing on a taxiway rather than the landing strip to which he was directed.
In accidentally landing on the taxiway, Ford passed over an American Airlines plane with over a hundred passengers and crew on board. Recordings released by the air traffic controllers at John Wayne reveal that just after he flew past the passenger plane, Dr Jones Ford asked: “Was that airliner meant to be underneath me?"
Ford took up flying when he was in his 50s and owns several aircraft (including the Millennium Falcon). He has participated in several aid drops in disaster zones across the world, but as well as crashing in 2015, the star has had a few incidents in the air, including a helicopter crash during a training flight in 1999.
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