US actor Harrison Ford has been involved in a near-miss while flying his plane in California, US media say.<\/p>\n
They say Ford, aged 74, was instructed to land on a runway at John Wayne airport in Orange Country on Monday.<\/p>\n
But instead he mistakenly landed on a parallel taxiway, passing over a waiting American Airlines plane with 110 passengers and crew on board.<\/p>\n
That plane safely departed minutes later. Ford has not commented on the reported incident.<\/p>\n
Just before the landing, the Indiana Jones star is quoted as asking air traffic controllers: “Was that airliner meant to be underneath me?”<\/p>\n
The Federal Aviation Authority confirmed that the pilot of the single-engine Aviat Husky plane had been cleared to land on the runway.<\/p>\n
But it declined to confirm that the pilot was in fact Harrison Ford.<\/p>\n
The incident was first reported by NBC and the TMZ website.<\/p>\n
The actor, who is a certified pilot, has been involved in several air accidents.<\/p>\n
In 2015, he was injured when his vintage plane crashed on a golf course in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
In 1999, Ford crash-landed his helicopter during a training flight in Los Angeles but both he and the instructor were unhurt.<\/p>\n
He has been in accidents out of the cockpit too, breaking his leg in 2014 while filming a scene involving a door on the Millennium Falcon spaceship.<\/p>\n
Ford took up flying when he was in his 50s and owns several aircraft.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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