Harrison Ford opens up about his plane crash on 'Jimmy Kimmel'-in a hot dog costume
YouTube/ABC
But he got serious for a moment when Kimmel brought up Ford crash-landing a small plane he was piloting on a Los Angeles golf course in March.
The actor described the experience:
"I remember the engine stopping. I remember that part very well," he said while adjusting his hot dog costume. "I remember telling the tower what I was going to do and I remember their suggestion was that I take the normal route to land and I knew I wasn't going to do that so I said 'no,' and that's the last thing I remember happening until five days afterwards."
Kimmel asked Ford if he was unconscious when the plane was going down.
"I was not," Ford said. "But I'm told by the doctors that the amount of general grade anesthesia that I got generated a retrograde amnesia."
Kimmel noted that amnesia usually happens after an event like this in the movies.
"This was not a movie," Ford said.
Following the March crash, an assistant LA fire chief stated that the single-engine plane Ford was flying suffered a mechanical failure just minutes after taking off from Santa Monica Airport.
#BREAKING Witnesses say #Harrison Ford was covered in blood, walked away from plane crash. Injuries serious.#KTLA pic.twitter.com/sTin3hk9dc
- Christine Miceli (@miceliKTLA) March 5, 2015
This wasn't Ford's first plane crash.
In 1999-2000, Ford crash-landed two planes within a year: one in Lincoln, Nebraska, and the other 60 miles outside Los Angeles, according to The Guardian.
Watch Ford's complete chat with Kimmel about his most recent crash landing:
- Butterfly basin: Astronomers find the biggest known reservoir of planet-forming ingredients around a young star!
- SEBI grants LIC three more years to achieve 10% public shareholding
- ISRO’s Aditya L1 and Chandrayaan-2 get front-row seats to the strongest solar storm in over 20 years
- 95% of PM Modi’s assets are in fixed deposit! From investments to education, here are key takeaways from his nomination filing
- Virat Kohli-backed Go Digit IPO subscription opens today — all you need to know
- Nothing Phone (2a) blue edition launched
- JNK India IPO allotment date
- JioCinema New Plans
- Realme Narzo 70 Launched
- Apple Let Loose event
- Elon Musk Apology
- RIL cash flows
- Charlie Munger
- Feedbank IPO allotment
- Tata IPO allotment
- Most generous retirement plans
- Broadcom lays off
- Cibil Score vs Cibil Report
- Birla and Bajaj in top Richest
- Nestle Sept 2023 report
- India Equity Market