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Harrison Ford Injured in Plane Crash

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harrisonfordplanecrash?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1425599949411ABC News(VENICE, Calif.) — Harrison Ford was injured when the World War II-era single-engine plane he was piloting crashed on a golf course near Santa Monica, California.

Ford, 72, was forced to make an emergency landing at Penmar Golf Course, just west of Santa Monica Municipal Airport, at 2:20 p.m. PST on Thursday after the engine of the Ryan ST3KR plane he was flying failed, said NTSB and Los Angeles fire officials.

He was taken to a nearby hospital in “fair to moderate” condition, said Patrick Butler with the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Ford was “banged up” and receiving medical care, said his publicist, Ina Treciokas, who described the actor’s injuries as non-life threatening.

Ford reported engine trouble shortly after taking off from Santa Monica Municipal Airport and asked for an immediate return to the airport, said NTSB investigator Patrick Jones. He then reported that his aircraft came up short of the runway, according to air traffic controller transmissions from LiveATC.net.

The vintage airplane that Ford was piloting clipped a tree before crashing, said Jones.

Elaine Miller told ABC station KABC-TV that the pilot was able to speak and “expressed that he was in pain.” She and several others helped him out of the plane after it crashed.

“He had a significant head wound,” said Miller. “He asked someone to hold his legs up, and people were just saying, ‘you’re okay, the fire department is on its way,’ and…once police and fire started to arrive, my friends and I sort of backed away and went to the other side of the course to give them room.”

 

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