NBC-TV says actor Harrison Ford had a potentially serious run-in with an airliner at a Southern California airport.
NBC reports that Ford, an experienced pilot, was told to land on a runway at John Wayne Airport in Orange County on Monday, but he mistakenly landed on a parallel taxiway, passing over an American Airlines jet holding nearby.
NBC says air traffic control recordings have Ford asking: “Was that airliner meant to be underneath me?”
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American Airlines Flight 1456, with 110 passengers and six crew, departed safely for Dallas.
Ford’s publicist, Ina Treciokas, declined comment Tuesday afternoon.
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Federal Aviation Administration
spokesman Ian Gregor couldn’t confirm that Ford was the pilot of the
single-engine Husky, but he says the pilot received and read back the proper
landing instructions.
The FAA is investigating.
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