Harrison Ford was piloting a plane that wrongly crossed a runway where another plane was landing, 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 Hawthorne Airport in the Los Angeles area when, according to a statement released by Ford's publicist, he crossed the runway after mishearing an instruction from air traffic control. "He immediately acknowledged the mistake and apologized to ATC for the error," the statement said."No one was injured and there was never any danger of a collision."
Without naming Ford, the Federal Aviation Administration said a two-seat Aviat Husky plane crossed the runway while another aircraft was performing a touch-and-go landing just over a half-mile away.
The 77-year-old actor collects and frequently flies planes and helicopters. In 2017, he flew low over an airliner with 116 people aboard moments before mistakenly landing on a taxiway at another Southern California airport. In 2015, he was injured when he crashed his World War II-era plane on a Los Angeles golf course. Federal investigators found that Ford was not at fault for the crash, which was mechanical.
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