Harrison Ford should be banned from L.A. world's most crowded airspace for near miss at John Wayne

Don't forget, he made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsers.

That old geezer must be 100 years old by now.

And I think all airline pilots who can't fly an unassisted approach and landing should be banned from any major airport.

I thought he died in that one movie.

Totally agree. The Asiana crash at sfo resulted from from pilots, unaccustomed to landing manually, letting airspeed decay then making improper recovery fron rapid descent i.e. pulling nose up rather than adding power. Something that is drilled relentlessly into pilots

Many pilots do a short landing at uncontrolled airports. But he isn't supposed to do it at a controlled airport, let alone a dual use airport. In any case he should have paid attention and landed on the assigned runway and not the taxiway.

He's also crash landed a few times as well, including last year at a Santa Monica golf course.

If you were him you'd be Hand Solo.

A pilot friend of mine has landed small planes at John Wayne many times. He landed fighter jets on aircraft carriers in the military. His major grip was that the control tower would assign him to land too close behind a "heavy"—a big jet. He always declined and said "I'm not landing behind no heavy" and go around to try again.

He said it is more difficult landing in the wake of a jet and the time gap needed to be greater than the John Wayne thought was okay.

Ford may have try to land after a jet did and it was than he could bear. But it is also possible he was on something. This is not his first small plane landing trouble. He is bound to lose his license.

ATC will sep 4-8 nm when following a heavy but it's still up the PIC to make sure ATC does this and understands your aircraft's V approach.

Hey fool. It's a NEAR HIT, and not a "near miss." If it was a near miss he would have hit something.

Do This wrote:

ATC will sep 4-8 nm when following a heavy but it's still up the PIC to make sure ATC does this and understands your aircraft's V approach.

Ah, breaker one-nine, this here's the Rubber Duck. You gotta copy on me, Pig Pen, c'mon? Ah, yeah, 10-4, Pig Pen, fer shure, fer shure. By golly, it's clean clear to Flag Town, c'mon. Yeah, that's a big 10-4 there, Pig Pen, yeah, we definitely got the front door, good buddy. Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy

If Ford is that senile he should be grounded permanently.

Well he was flying "an old bucket of bolts."

I always said that Chewbacca was the brains behind the operation.

THIS POST IS TROLL. KILOW REN KILLED HIM. PEPOLE DONT COME BACK FROM THE DEAD TO FLY AIRPLANES!!!!!

Heavies wrote:

A pilot friend of mine has landed small planes at John Wayne many times. He landed fighter jets on aircraft carriers in the military. His major grip was that the control tower would assign him to land too close behind a "heavy"—a big jet. He always declined and said "I'm not landing behind no heavy" and go around to try again.

He said it is more difficult landing in the wake of a jet and the time gap needed to be greater than the John Wayne thought was okay.

Ford may have try to land after a jet did and it was than he could bear. But it is also possible he was on something. This is not his first small plane landing trouble. He is bound to lose his license.

All irrelevant.

He landed on a TAXIWAY! He (based on news reports) mistook the taxiway for the runway.

Kkloi wrote:

He's also crash landed a few times as well, including last year at a Santa Monica golf course.

Yeah, but he politely asked the foursome ahead of him if he could play through.

He did the "Japanese Marathon" landing.