Hollywood
star, Harrison Ford was aboard a small plane that landed on a taxiway of a
California airport, flying directly over a waiting American Airlines 737 on
Monday.
Confirming the
incident, the Federal Aviation Administration, which is yet to identify who was
piloting the plane said the actor's Aviat Husky single-engine propellor plane
was cleared to land on Runway 20L at John Wayne Airport in Orange County.
The FAA said
the pilot repeated the approved landing clearance back to the air traffic
controller. "The pilot then landed on a taxiway that runs parallel to the
runway, overflying a Boeing 737 that was holding short of the runway". The
737-800, operated by American Airlines, had 110 passengers and six crew aboard.
The flight departed the gate from Orange County for Dallas just after noon.
Harrison Ford
experienced an engine failure on his single-engine Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR in
March 2015, performing an emergency landing on a golf course. Back then, he was
seriously injured in the accident and the NTSB traced the cause to a failed
part inside the engine's carburetor.
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