In February, Harrison Ford was involved in a “potentially serious” airplane incident that might get his pilot’s license suspended: While piloting his private plane at an Orange County, California airport, Ford mistakenly landed on a taxiway instead of a runway, one that was dangerously close to a full passenger plane about to take off. “Was that airliner meant to be underneath me?” Ford told air-traffic control at the time, but now, some newly-released audio recordings are shedding light onto why he was distracted while landing the plane. “I’m the schmuck who landed on the taxiway,” he explained to the air-traffic control tower upon landing, according to THR. “Oh. I landed on Taxiway Charlie. I understand now. Sorry for that.” Specifically, Ford “got distracted by the airliner” partially because of “big turbulence” from another airplane that was landing; and when an air-traffic controller remarked that his transgression wasn’t a big deal and to get his pilot’s license to proceed further, Ford responded, “it’s a big deal for me.” As a result of the incident, a thorough Federal Aviation Administration investigation is currently underway.
Ford has been an experienced pilot and general aviation enthusiast for decades, but has unfortunately gotten himself into a handful of high-profile plane incidents. Most recently, in 2015, he crash-landed one of his vintage planes on a Santa Monica golf course after its engine failed.
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