Hollywood star, Harrison Ford was aboard a small plane that landed on a
taxiway of a California airport, flying directly over a waiting American
Airlines 737 on Monday.
Confirming the incident, the Federal Aviation Administration, which is
yet to identify who was piloting the plane said the actor's Aviat Husky
single-engine propellor plane was cleared to land on Runway 20L at John
Wayne Airport in Orange County.
The FAA said the pilot repeated the approved landing clearance back to
the air traffic controller. "The pilot then landed on a taxiway that
runs parallel to the runway, overflying a Boeing 737 that was holding
short of the runway". The 737-800, operated by American Airlines, had
110 passengers and six crew aboard. The flight departed the gate from
Orange County for Dallas just after noon.
Harrison Ford experienced an engine failure on his single-engine Ryan
Aeronautical ST3KR in March 2015, performing an emergency landing on a
golf course. Back then, he was seriously injured in the accident and the
NTSB traced the cause to a failed part inside the engine's carburetor.
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