Harrison Ford: Video shows Hollywood star in near miss with passenger jet
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Video has been released showing a plane piloted by actor Harrison Ford suddenly and mistakenly flying low over a passenger jet with 110 people aboard at a Southern California airport.
The 45 seconds of soundless video show the 74-year-old Star Wars and Indiana Jones star's potentially serious mishap at John Wayne Airport in Orange County.
In it, an American Airlines 737 is taxiing slowly. Then Ford's yellow, single-engine Aviat Husky suddenly zooms in from the right of the frame, flying low over the airliner and casting its shadow down the middle of the bigger plane before landing on the taxiway.
Ford was supposed to have landed on a runway that runs parallel to the taxiway.
"Was that airliner meant to be underneath me?" Ford asks in previously released sound from the air traffic control tower.
The video then shows the same landing from the back, giving more time to the approach of Ford's plane, but the flyover itself is barely visible.
No reason has been given for why Ford made the mistake, and his publicist has not replied to requests for comment.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident.
American Airlines Flight 1456, with 110 passengers and six crew members aboard, departed safely for Dallas a few minutes later.
Ford collects vintage planes and has a long and good record as an aviator.
But he has had several close calls and was injured in a serious accident in March 2015 when his World War II-era trainer crashed on a Los Angeles golf course.
AP
Topics: accidents, actor, air-and-space, united-states
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