Harrison Ford is a senile old man who is going to crash into your plane at some point

[Dan Druff]

They really need to have some sort of competence test for pilots past a certain age, or otherwise we are looking at disaster.

Harrison Ford, who will turn 78 this year, has made two dangerous mistakes in the past 3 years while landing. Fortunately, nobody has gotten hurt yet, but it's time to take his pilot's license away. I don't care if he was a great pilot of the Millenium Falcon in 1977, it's time to quit flying.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...r-plane-runway

In this incident, he crossed the runway of another plane landing. In 2017, he did something worse -- flying low over a commercial airliner, and then landing at the wrong airport.

He's also collected vintage planes which aren't necessary airworthy and flown them, such as a WWII fighter, which then crashed onto a golf course in 2015. He somehow survived that one with moderate injuries.

[mulva]

"In this incident, he crossed the runway of another plane landing. In 2017, he did something worse -- flying low over a commercial airliner, and then landing at the wrong airport."

"He's also collected vintage planes which aren't necessary airworthy and flown them, such as a WWII fighter, which then crashed onto a golf course in 2015. He somehow survived that one with moderate injuries."

[FRANKRIZZO]

Yes, they should have stopped my dad from driving instead offered him 3 year lease, still have to return the car. He is very dangerous on the road.

[TheXFactor]

[gauchojake]

[mulva]

i think there actually was a program in the uk where they taught dogs to fly

[Walter Sobchak]

Nothing is fucked? THE GODDAMN PLANE HAS CRASHED INTO THE MOUNTAIN!

[duped_samaritan]

Sounds like Carol Baskins first husband.

[Walter Sobchak]

Yes, they should have stopped my dad from driving instead offered him 3 year lease, still have to return the car. He is very dangerous on the road.

NEVER TELL HIM THE ODDS

[Belly Buster]

[MumblesBadly]

The second controller was speaking waaaaay too fast for an old codger like HF to understand what he was saying.

[Belly Buster]

The second controller was speaking waaaaay too fast for an old codger like HF to understand what he was saying.

In that case he fails his medical and can't fly.

In fairness the controller speaks clearer than Ford who mumbles badly.

[MumblesBadly]

The second controller was speaking waaaaay too fast for an old codger like HF to understand what he was saying.

In that case he fails his medical and can't fly.

In fairness the controller speaks clearer than Ford who mumbles badly.

I’ve taken the medical for a private pilot’s license and passed (back in the early days of my cushy academic career and had money to burn on doing general aviation), and it does NOT test you for whether you can understand rapid-fire speech like what that controller was doing. But given the dangerousness of the situation and the conflicting information in that spurt of communication, HF should have definitely requested that the controller repeat the message to be sure of the content of the instructions. That HF didn’t do so amounted to a dangerous lapse in judgement on his part, i.e. a “pilot error”, regardless of how quickly or garbled the controller had give the instructions.

[gauchojake]

Hawthorne airport is literally the size of a Costco parking lot