Didn’t he also rescue Cindy Crawford with his helicoptor off a mountain in Colorado?
Seriously, this guy is too cool for school.
Current reports say a broken arm and a bad gash to the forehead from slamming into the controls when he pranged the plane. Full recovery expected.
Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how’s your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper’s and caught his can in the Bertie.
Time to take his pilot’s license and freeze it in carbonite.
Good damn thing he didn’t slam into one of those bulky sand crawlers then.
on his way in he flew extremely low over a green and experienced pin shear.
Er, I’m afraid I don’t quite follow you, Squadron Leader.
For the few here who don’t know what’s going on: the squadron is a flying circus.
Was he over Macho Grande?
I’m glad he acted decisively when he saw he was in clear and present danger.
He’ll never get over Macho Grande
It’s hard to know exactly what happened as the search for a witness continues.
Harrison had worse injuries than the original reports said. In addition to gashes on the head, he broke his pelvis and both ankles. He had surgery Thursday night and is in “fair to moderate condition.”
New York Daily News, March 6, 2015, “Harrison Ford undergoes surgery for broken pelvis, ankle following plane crash: report.”
He came in that thing? He’s braver than I thought!
That’s no golf course.
That’s a landing strip!
I giggled.
I wonder if he had a bad feeling about it.
One of the first things I heard – and I heard about the crash fairly quickly – was that paramedics were attending to Ford’s hip. Just something like ‘they put a pillow on his hip’ or something like that. At the time I assumed a broken pelvis, and (for whatever reason) I assumed a broken leg. I heard about the bloody head of course, and assumed he jack-knifed forward into the panel as would be expected in such a crash.
In aircraft, you tend to have less legroom than in a car because of the way you work the pedals. Plus there’s a lot going on down there, so there’s not a lot of space underneath. No surprise he broke an ankle. No surprise on the pelvis, either. I hope his back is all right. The undercarriage would have absorbed a lot of energy, but it was still a pretty hard landing. The way the wings are bent leads me to guess that they collapsed during forward motion though, and that would have softened it a little.
I heard on CNN this morning that there have been six PT-22 crashes in recent years. Three were deemed ‘pilot error’, two were engine failures, and one is undetermined at this time. The Kinner R-5 (aka R-540) was said to be a reliable engine. Nevertheless, even the most reliable engines conk out sometimes.
When my dad was a Flight Service Specialist in Lancaster, some friends flew out in a Globe Swift from his former station in Daggett. After their visit they took off and lost power on the climb. They stalled, recovered, and then stalled again and crashed upside-down. Both occupants survived; one had a broken back. (Note: I can’t find the accident report. I’m sure it happened, though.) Apparently the pilot forgot to refuel – or check the amount of fuel – before take-off.