A small plane, piloted by actor Harrison Ford crash-landed on an L.A. golf course yesterday, just minutes from Santa Monica. Although initial reports stated that the 72-year-old actor was rushed to the hospital in critical condition with gashes and severe wounds, hours later his son, Ben, tweeted that his father is going to be OK.
“At the hospital. Dad is ok. Battered, but ok! He is every bit the man you would think he is.”
According to first responders on the scene, Ford was piloting a vintage two-seater fighter plane on Thursday when something went wrong and he was forced to crash-land onto Penmar golf course in Venice, California. Witnesses say that two doctors who happened to be golfing at the time immediately rushed over to treat the actor.
When Paramedics arrived, Ford was “alert and conscious” and suffering “moderate trauma”, Patrick Butler, Los Angeles assistant fire chief, told media at the scene during a press conference on Thursday.
Oddly enough, this was not the Indiana Jones franchise star’s first incident involving a plane crash. In 2000, he made a crash-landing in Nebraska, just months after crashing a helicopter in Los Angeles.
Emergency personnel arrived to the scene a short time later. Ford, a longtime aviator, known to pilot planes and helicopters on the regular, was transported to a nearby hospital where he was treated for large gashes to the head and bleeding.
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