Harrison Ford was involved in a plane accident and narrowly missed an American Airlines plane

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Harrison Ford was involved in an incident that could have been fatal at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, on Monday. The private, single-engine plane he was piloting narrowly missed a passenger plane as it landed.

According to NBC News, the “Star Wars” actor was instructed to land on a specific runway but instead aimed for a taxiway.

His plane flew over the top of an American Airlines 737 that was carrying 110 passengers and a crew of six. Ford, 74, was caught in air traffic control recordings saying, “Should this plane be below me?”

The passenger plane departed safely a few minutes after the incident.

Air traffic controllers told Ford that he landed on a taxiway and not the runway. Landing on a runway is a violation of Federal Aviation Administration safety regulations.

An FAA spokesman told Business Insider that air traffic controllers cleared Ford’s plane, a single-engine Aviat Husky, to land on Runway 20L at John Wayne Airport on Monday afternoon The runway was located.

The FAA is investigating the incident. Penalties generally range from a warning to a license suspension or revocation.

This is not the first mid-air incident Ford has experienced. The enthusiastic flyer landed a small plane on a golf course near Los Angeles in 2015 and was taken to hospital with moderate injuries. And in 2000, Ford’s six-seat Beechcraft Bonanza was forced to make an emergency landing at Lincoln Municipal Airport in Nebraska.

A Ford representative had no comment for this story.

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