Harrison Ford piloting plane that wrongly crosses runway in Los Angeles

HAWTHORNE — Harrison Ford was piloting a aircraft that wrongly crossed a runway where a further aircraft was landing, and federal authorities are investigating, officers and a representative for the actor reported Wednesday.

Ford was at the controls of a little aircraft Friday at Hawthorne Airport in the Los Angeles space when, in accordance to a assertion produced by Ford’s publicist, he crossed the runway right after mishearing an instruction from air traffic regulate.

“He right away acknowledged the miscalculation and apologized to ATC for the error,” in accordance to the assertion from publicist Ina Treciokas. ”No one particular was hurt and there was by no means any risk of a collision.”

It was the hottest of numerous equivalent incidents around the yrs for the seventy seven-yr-aged actor, who collects and commonly flies planes and helicopters.

Most recently, he flew minimal around an airliner with 116 individuals aboard moments in advance of mistakenly landing on a taxiway at a further Southern California airport in 2017.

Without naming Ford, the Federal Aviation Administration reported Wednesday that a two-seat Aviat Husky aircraft crossed the runway whilst a further aircraft was undertaking a touch-and-go landing just around a fifty percent-mile away.

Ford’s assertion suggests the function of his flight was “to manage forex and proficiency in the aircraft.”

In 2015, Ford was hurt when he crashed his Environment War II-era aircraft on a Los Angeles golf training course right after motor failure. Federal investigators identified that Ford was not at fault for the crash, which was fully mechanical.