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Harrison Ford the latest to survive crash-landing plane on a golf course

By John Strege

It was actor Harrison Ford’s good fortune as well as others on the ground that a golf course was near the airport at which he was attempting to return when he crash-landed his World War II training aircraft on Thursday.

 

Ford, who was hospitalized after suffering injuries that were not life-threatening, brought his plane down on Penmar Golf Course in Venice, catercorner from the end of the Santa Monica Municipal Airport runway from which he had taken off only moments earlier.

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“Looking at where he crashed and how the plane went down, I'm sure there was a moment where he said, ‘I’m not going to risk lives, whatever happens, happens. It's going to be just me,’” Eddie Aguglia, who was playing a round of golf at the time, told NBC News.

“He risked life and limb by putting it down on the golf course instead of trying to go further to try to get back to the airport. Another 25 to 30 yards and…I don't want to think about it. He saved several lives.”

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Golf courses are often used as emergency landing strips, given their often wide and relatively flat fairways. Last month, one plane made an emergency landing at Skywest Golf Course in Hayward, Calif., and another crash-landed at Valley View Golf Course in Layton, Utah. During World War II, the War Department viewed golf courses near coastlines as potential emergency landing strips.

Airplane manufacturer and movie producer Howard Hughes was test-piloting an experimental Army photographic plane when it experienced trouble and was attempting to land it on Los Angeles Country club, when he came up about 100 yards short, according to the Los Angeles Times.

 

Penmar is a short (2,582 yards) nine-hole course owned by the city of Los Angeles. It opened in 1962.

 

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We had a guy crash land his plane into a bay about a year ago.  I got out, waded to shore, walked into a golf course clubhouse and ordered a diet pepsi.  He said that he could have gone for the course but didn't want to damage a green.

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We had one of the banner planes land on the 10th hole at Wicked Stick Golf Club here at the beach about 8 years or so ago now. The pilot said he lost oil pressure and made a wheels down deadstick landing. I was not there when it happened. They took the wings off and trucked it out back to it's little airport. 2 weeks later same plane same pilot lost oil pressure again and this time ditched it in the ocean next to the beach. He was un injured either time but the plane sank in shallow water and was done for

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I heard he shot down 4 Tie Fighters before he had to set her down!

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Yeah, his flight was a little low. Came up just short of the green.

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We have a small airport just north of my home course that they do a lot of skydiving out of. Fun to watch. However, there was one guy's chute that didn't open last year I heard. Glad I wasn't playing that day.

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