{"id":96739,"date":"2017-04-04T01:07:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T05:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=96739"},"modified":"2017-04-04T01:07:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T05:07:31","slug":"harrison-ford-wont-face-any-penalties-over-runway-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/04\/harrison-ford-wont-face-any-penalties-over-runway-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrison Ford won&#8217;t face any penalties over runway incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_96740\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96740\" style=\"width: 463px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Harrison_Ford_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96740\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Harrison_Ford_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg\" alt=\"Harrison Ford will not face any penalties over mistakenly landing on a taxiway at a Southern California airport earlier this year, the actor's attorney said Monday. (Photo by Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0)],)\" width=\"463\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Harrison_Ford_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg 463w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Harrison_Ford_by_Gage_Skidmore_2-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-96740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harrison Ford will not face any penalties over mistakenly landing on a taxiway at a Southern California airport earlier this year, the actor&#8217;s attorney said Monday. (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AHarrison_Ford_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg\">Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0)],<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Harrison Ford will not face any penalties over mistakenly landing on a taxiway at a Southern California airport earlier this year, the actor&#8217;s attorney said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Stephen Hofer wrote in a statement that the Federal Aviation Administration will not fine Ford and the actor will retain his pilot&#8217;s license without restriction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FAA conducted a full investigation into the matter, including an interview with Mr. Ford, and determined that no administrative or enforcement action was warranted,\u201d Hofer wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Ford mistakenly landed on a taxiway at John Wayne Airport in Orange County on Feb. 13 after flying over an American Airlines jet that was waiting to take off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m the schmuck who landed on the taxiway,\u201d Ford told an air traffic controller shortly after the landing. Recordings of Ford&#8217;s conversations with air traffic controllers were released Friday by the Federal Aviation Administration, and video previously released by the airport showed the actor&#8217;s Aviat Husky plane from behind as it descends toward the airfield where the American Airlines Boeing 737 is slowly taxiing.<\/p>\n<p>Ford told an air traffic controller after the incident that he \u201cgot distracted by the airliner\u201d and also mentioned \u201cbig turbulence\u201d from another plane that was landing.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA confirmed it had concluded its investigation into the incident, but the agency said it does not comment on individual pilots.<\/p>\n<p>Ford co-operated with investigators, has been a licensed pilot for more than 20 years with more 5,000 hours of flight experience, and has never been the subject of an FAA enforcement action, Hofer said.<\/p>\n<p>Ford collects vintage planes and has had several close calls and a serious accident in March 2015 when he was injured in his World War II-era trainer after it crashed on a Los Angeles golf course when its engine failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Harrison Ford will not face any penalties over mistakenly landing on a taxiway at a Southern California &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":96740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[17064],"class_list":["post-96739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-harrison-ford","mauthors-anthony-mccartney","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}