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The 77-year-old actor picks up and flies planes and helicopters. AP
Harrison Ford was piloting a plane that wrongly crossed a runway where another plane landed, and federal authorities are investigating, officials and a representative for the actor said Wednesday.
Ford was at the controls of a small plane Friday at the Hawthorne airport in the Los Angeles area, when, according to a statement released by the Ford publicist, he crossed the runway after misheard instructions from air traffic control.
“He immediately acknowledged the error and apologized to ATC for the error,” according to the statement by publicist Ina Treciokas. “No one was injured and there was never a danger of collision.”
It was the latest in several similar incidents over the years for the 77-year-old actor, who frequently picks up and flies planes and helicopters.
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Most recently, he flew low on a plane with 116 people on board just before mistakenly landing on a taxiway at another southern California airport in 2017.
Without naming Ford, the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that a two-seat Aviat Husky aircraft crossed the runway while another aircraft made a tactile landing just over a half-mile away.
Ford’s statement says the purpose of his flight was “to maintain currency and competition on the plane.”
In 2015, Ford was injured when his World War II era plane crashed on a Los Angeles golf course after an engine failure. Federal investigators found that Ford was not to blame for the accident, which was entirely mechanical.
