Harrison Ford, the actor best known for his roles as Indiana Jones and Han Solo in the “Star Wars” movie franchise, crashed landed his plane in a golf course in L.A.
Actor Harrison Ford was injured and taken to a hospital after a small plane he was piloting crash-landed at an L.A. golf course Thursday, reports said.
Ford was flying a vintage two-seater plane that crashed at Penmar golf course in Venice, California Thursday afternoon, officials said in a press conference. A source at the scene confirmed to MyFoxLA that Ford was involved in the crash.
L.A. Fire Dept. spokesman Patrick Butler said that a man approximately 70-years-old was taken to a local hospital in fair-to-moderate condition, and was alert and breathing.
Butler wouldn’t confirm the victim was Ford for privacy reasons, but said that the pilot was found outside the plane and was met by bystanders even before paramedics arrived. According to report, they administered spinal mobilization and started an IV treatment.
Celebrity stalkers TMZ reported that Ford, 72, who is best known for his roles as Indiana Jones and Han Solo in the “Star Wars” franchise, had multiple gashes to the head and was bleeding when two nearby doctors at the golf course rushed over to treat the actor.
An email to his representative sent PPD was not immediately returned, but witnesses told The Associated Press he was golfing when he saw the plane taking off.
“Immediately you could see the engine started to sputter and just cut out, and he banked sharply to the left,” said Jeff Kuprycz, who recalled the plane was about 200 feet overhead when it plunged to the ground. “He ended up crashing around the eighth hole. There was no explosion or anything. It just sounded like a car hitting the ground or a tree or something. Like that one little bang, and that was it.”
Ford was hospitalized in 2012 after injuring his ankle in an accident on the London set of “Star Wars: Episode VII.” Always his own stunt man, Ford got his pilot’s license in the late 1980s and has served as a spokesman to various airline associations. In 2009, he stepped down as chairman of a youth program for the Experimental Aircraft Association.
The real-life Indiana Jones made headlines in 2001 when he rescued a missing Boy Scout on his helicopter, and nearly a year before, he rescued an ailing mountain climber in Jackson, Wyoming. He has also volunteered his services during forest-fire season, when rescue helicopter are busy fighting blazes.
The actor has said his rescues “had nothing to do with heroism.”
“It had to do with flying a helicopter. That’s all,” he said.
