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on Friday March 06 2015, @01:45AM
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from the i've-made-a-lot-of-special-modifications-myself dept.
Breaking News: Harrison Ford hospitalized after plane crash, Harrison family member reports that Harrison Ford will live, having suffered some cuts and bruises.
Actor Harrison Ford was hospitalized Thursday afternoon after a single-engine plane he was piloting crashed onto a Venice golf course shortly after takeoff.
[...] Aerial footage of the minutes after the crash showed the small single-engine vintage World War II trainer plane crashed on the ground at Penmar Golf Club, and one person being treated by paramedics and being transported to a hospital.
More information, including a picture of the plane can be found here.
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Indiana Jones Actor Crashes Vintage PT-22 on Santa Monica Golf Course
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(Score: 5, Funny) by unzombied on Friday March 06 2015, @01:49AM
Any truth to the rumor there were snakes on the plane?
(Score: 2, Funny) by midacre on Friday March 06 2015, @02:21AM
Indy jokes. It had to be Indy jokes.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 06 2015, @02:33AM
First it was Spock and now Kirk?
NooOOOOO!!O!! I loved him when he shot Greedo first!
(Score: 3, Funny) by tibman on Friday March 06 2015, @03:20AM
You must be drunk man, you didn't even try!
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(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2015, @03:52AM
(Score: 3, Insightful) by tibman on Friday March 06 2015, @05:22AM
Woah now, don't get all explainy on me. The Han shot first bit was the least subtle part. That was the core of his jab, man. I obviously expect better from SN trolls than you.
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday March 06 2015, @04:07AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Friday March 06 2015, @08:52AM
Get these mother-fucking snakes off this mother-fucking plane!
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Friday March 06 2015, @02:23AM
Nope, but there was an old James Bond waving his umbrella at the local birds...
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Friday March 06 2015, @03:35AM
No.
There were strakes on the plane.
(Score: 3, Funny) by MrGuy on Friday March 06 2015, @01:53AM
the plane was attracted by some sort of mystical artifact that works exactly like you might think a magnet works if you don't know anything about magnets.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday March 06 2015, @02:37AM
I would say that I don't know how Alien Magnets work, but that would add credence to the silly theory that there was more to Indy's story than the trilogy's contents.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2015, @02:33AM
Thank you for fast tracking current news. I hope to see this fast tracking more.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by GeorgeScuttles on Friday March 06 2015, @02:52AM
I expected to read about some extra in one of the indiana jones movies, not Harrison Ford. I can't be alone in this.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2015, @02:59AM
You aren't.
Is Indiana Jones what he is best known for, worldwide?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2015, @04:46AM
Yeah, I was hoping it was going to be that annoying Short Round guy.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2015, @02:56AM
Anyone else get confused by the NTSB investigator's last name = Jones?
The pilot reported a loss of engine power, clipped the top of a tree and was trying to return to the airport, Jones said.
I thought Indiana was talking about himself in the third person.
(Score: 3, Funny) by mrsam on Friday March 06 2015, @03:04AM
... I've got a bad feeling about this.
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here a week; try the buffet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2015, @03:50AM
Godd thing he climbed into that refrigerator before impact!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2015, @03:56AM
FTFY
(Score: 1) by TLA on Friday March 06 2015, @03:54AM
He did the Kessel Run while holding on to his potatoes. After a perfect one point landing he grabbed his companions beanie and saved the blonde bit the trouble of gurging up lunch. Then he high-fived the bear before suckerpunching the cunt who'd been rifling his wardrobe*.
*seriously, watch the end of Empire. Lando is wearing Han's clothes while flying Han's ship.
Excuse me, I think I need to reboot my horse. - NCommander
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2015, @04:13AM
What!?!!? Did USA collapse and I haven't heard?
How did it happen?? Was that golf club so important to US economy as to count as another 9/11?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2015, @06:53AM
That's one way to score a hole in one at a golf course.
( With something the size of a plane, you make your own hole - anywhere you want it. )
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday March 06 2015, @08:36AM
Airplane putt - even mightier than the (bald) eagle putt, ey?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2015, @09:11AM
I mean come on, he's a f-ing space pilot, Indiana Jones can't even fly
(Score: 3, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Friday March 06 2015, @01:31PM
Indiana Jones can't even fly
Evidently.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2015, @02:02PM
Fly, Yes! Land? no!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flXCWdhJnGY [youtube.com]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by kaszz on Friday March 06 2015, @09:18AM
So we have sunk this low. Crashing a plane isn't unheard of and it sure hurts. But on a larger scale.. IT DOESN'T MATTER.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Ryuugami on Friday March 06 2015, @10:21AM
Stuff that doesn't matter - News for socialites
Wrong site. You want to go that-a-way [slashdot.org]. Tagline here is "SoylentNews is people".
So we have sunk this low. Crashing a plane isn't unheard of and it sure hurts. But on a larger scale.. IT DOESN'T MATTER.
On a larger scale... nothing matters, except maybe the Great Attractor.
Besides, the news is about Harrison Ford. I'm sure at least 120% of people visiting SN know about Harrison Ford.
If a shit storm's on the horizon, it's good to know far enough ahead you can at least bring along an umbrella. - D.Weber
(Score: 2) by turgid on Friday March 06 2015, @08:59PM
There are two good actors in the world: Harrison Ford and Clint Eastwood.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 1) by Pr. L Muishkin on Friday March 06 2015, @10:56PM
Chuck Norris just overheard your writings, (do not question Chuck's hearing,) man, I'm glad I'm not in your shoes.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday March 07 2015, @08:20AM
Chuck Norris didn't crash the plane. He just tested his plane-swatter ;)
No one would enter our airspace, because Chuck has his swatter.
(Score: 2) by M. Baranczak on Saturday March 07 2015, @02:52AM
Three. You forgot Jesse "The Mind" Ventura. "Predator" would have been so much better if Jesse was the lead and Arnold was the redshirt.
(Score: 1) by inertnet on Friday March 06 2015, @10:52AM
Would you have accepted this story on here if the title had said "Star Wars Actor" instead of "Indiana Jones Actor"?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by kaszz on Friday March 06 2015, @10:59AM
No.
(Score: 4, Informative) by n1 on Friday March 06 2015, @02:17PM
Time for another edition of Editorial Transparency!
I edited this submission as you may be aware. I saw the story break elsewhere and considered if it was something we should run, personally it is not news or interesting for me either. However, there was some interest from the community and other members of SN staff on our IRC server for this story. The consensus did seem to be it was a story for us, perhaps just not for you and me.
It can be frustrating that a story like this generates interest when there are tech/science and 'stuff that matters' events that don't seem to engage the community at all.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday March 07 2015, @03:25AM
A little technicality: Per all reports I've seen, he didn't crash it. It lost power and =then= he crash-landed it (what else could he do?) There's a difference.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday March 07 2015, @08:28AM
I wouldn't blame tabloid papers for their analytical capability :P
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday March 07 2015, @01:31PM
Good point ;)
"There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots."
Tho I don't think Ford is yet to the stage of
"I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers!"
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Friday March 06 2015, @10:43AM
Investigators have been hearing testimony from eye witnesses that an old man with an umbrella startled a flock of birds into the flight path of Ford's plane.
(Score: 3, Informative) by damnbunni on Friday March 06 2015, @12:23PM
What I find most interesting is that this is the second time Harrison Ford crashed an aircraft owned by MG Aviation. The other one was also apparently due to mechanical issues - he was practicing autorotation recovery in a Bell 206 when there was some sort of mechanical issue. (Both Ford and the instructor were unhurt in that one, but the chopper was a wreck.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Friday March 06 2015, @12:47PM
In this case I'm not sure if its Harrison or the Plane, or both as they both quite old. But I guess one went to the hospital while the other will go to some scrapyard.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2015, @02:58PM
n/t
(Score: 1) by rainday on Friday March 06 2015, @09:43PM
In California, an aging Frisco Kid attempted to fly his tiny toy plane over the golf course but failed ... No wookies were harmed.