Harrison Ford Plane Crashes

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Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy

A golf course...I'm surprised Obama wasn't there too.

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Now that's an Obama joke I can get behind! LMAO

Saw this and couldn't pass it up.


http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/73...928fd8fcda.jpg

From TMZ, damn good maneuvering to that spot!

http://i.imgur.com/xLJiWEU.jpg

Just managed to avoid the houses. Looks like he made good use of his experience.

Saw this morning where he radioed ATC immediately after taking off that he had engine failure and requested immediate emergency return.
He didn't make it.
Kudos to his aviator skills that he was able to set it down in a relatively safe area.
Speedy recovery to him.

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Originally Posted by BPTactical

One thing I was thinking- no fire, no fuel.

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Looking at the wreckage, it looks to me like more of a "unintended landing" than a "crash". This would explain the lack of fire. Lots of small planes have crash landings and don't burst into flames.

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Originally Posted by sniper7

Dang! Glad he was okay. A little troubling in the article saying he has had multiple crashes. That is not good!

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Not accurate to my understanding. I thought he was in a helicopter that crash landed in a riverbed a few years ago, but was not the PIC.

ETA, just saw your recent post, Bert. That makes perfect sense.

"Any landing you can walk away from is a good one" -- Gerald R. Massie, U.S. Army Air Forces photographer. Written in 1944 after the crash-landing of his B17

He rarely kills with a gun in his movies, actually. Most of the time, his characters use a gun as a last resort... Indy uses a whip 99% of the time, and shot a guy exactly once in 4 movies. He shot Greedo, but he was also a smuggler. The rest of the time he uses weapons, it's in self defense against storm troopers. Air Force One, I don't think he actually kills anyone, but they're all terrorists, so who cares. Blade Runner, he only killed murderous robots.

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Originally Posted by Ridge

He rarely kills with a gun in his movies, actually. Most of the time, his characters use a gun as a last resort... Indy uses a whip 99% of the time, and shot a guy exactly once in 4 movies. He shot Greedo, but he was also a smuggler. The rest of the time he uses weapons, it's in self defense against storm troopers. Air Force One, I don't think he actually kills anyone, but they're all terrorists, so who cares. Blade Runner, he only killed murderous robots.

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Does he disrespect or violate people's civil rights in his movies?

I care much more about reality, I don't have to watch movies.

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Originally Posted by Ridge

He rarely kills with a gun in his movies, actually. Most of the time, his characters use a gun as a last resort... Indy uses a whip 99% of the time, and shot a guy exactly once in 4 movies. He shot Greedo, but he was also a smuggler. The rest of the time he uses weapons, it's in self defense against storm troopers. Air Force One, I don't think he actually kills anyone, but they're all terrorists, so who cares. Blade Runner, he only killed murderous robots.

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Not to get too involved in drift but......:D in "Raiders" he shoots the guy with the sword and the guy driving the truck he thinks has Marion (sp?) in a basket and in AF1 he shoots the guy he's fighting in the onboard office area and strangles the guy he fights down in the cargo area.

Ok back to the man, my brother works in the film industry (sets/special effects) and has met Harrison Ford a number of times. He describes him as one of the most relaxed and laid back people he's every met-a very Zen kind of guy. Easy going and a professional on the set.

As for his flying-well how many of us have had accidents while on the road? The bad part for aviation is that when the engine dies you can't just coast to the side of the road.