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LEGENDARY HOLLYWOOD ACTOR Harrison Ford was injured on Thursday night when his small plane crash-landed on a golf course outside Los Angeles.
The 72-year-old suffered multiple gashes to his head and was left bleeding after the crash of the vintage two-seater plane.
A photograph of the downed plane shows its nose cone ripped open.
“At the hospital. Dad is ok. Battered, but ok!,” Ford’s son Ben said in a tweet.
Ford’s publicist said he was ‘banged up’ and is currently receiving medical care.
“The injuries sustained are not life threatening, and he is expected to make a full recovery,” she said.
The striking yellow-silver plane, which is more than 70 years old, had just taken off from Santa Monica Airport.
In audio with air traffic control, Ford can be heard saying, in an urgent voice: “Engine failure,” before requesting “immediate return” to the airport.
The aircraft clipped trees only yards from houses, and a few hundred yards from the airport runway he was trying to return to, before crashing onto what looked like a fairway.
“When we arrived on scene we had a small aircraft that was down on Penmar Golf Course, near the Santa Monica airport,” Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Erik Scott told AFP.
“Fortunately no one (else) was injured and the NTSB will perform an investigation,” he said, referring to the National Transportation Safety Board.
The KTLA television station cited witnesses as saying Ford was helped out of the plane, and that he could use his legs.
It showed video footage of the plane, which gashed a stretch of grass on the golf course before coming to a halt the right way up.
An LAFD spokesman, Patrick Butler, speaking at the scene, described Ford’s injuries as “fair to moderate.”
“The patient left the scene conscious and breathing,” said Butler.
Contains reporting by AFP. Additional reporting by Christine Bohan
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For all the fighting talk coming from unions over the last 2 weeks a measly 6.5 per cent is all they could get.Selling their members down the swannee as usual.
@Patrick Fennell: alot of us would give our right hand gmfor that sort of increase, without giving much in return. And a cash bonus for November..
@Patrick Fennell: Are you joking? 6.5% gets added to your DEFINED BENEFIT pension which is also index-linked.
I don’t mind a 10% increased but defined benefits will cripple this country in the near future. It needs to be scrapped.
@Patrick Fennell: I will be voting for it and hope private sector workers get a lift too from their employers
@Rob Jones: you really mean you’re jealous you don’t have a defined benefit scheme so you want to take it off those who do.
@Brenda: Exactly. DB’s in Private Sector are non existent for a reason. A company would go bankrupt. Same applies to countries.
Electric Ireland energy price increase today has just done away with any saving that Public Servants would make from this deal..Its gotta be a NO vote!!
@Sean Fallon: Absolutely it will be completely swallowed up!!!!
Unbelievable! Fórsa are basically recommending a pay cut to their members. They are absolutely useless to their members when it comes to national pay agreements.
Where is Mick Lynch when you need him?
Members urge Forsa to go back to negotiations or start preparing for a strike.
As a member of Forsa it will depend on what’s in the budget, if there is no major benefit from the budget I will be voting no to this deal, if there is then I’ll be supporting it. Inflation is being caused by supply chain delays due to covid and the war in Ukraine, it’s not ingrained in the system yet so no point in chasing it with large pay increases that will cripple the economy longterm.
@The next small thing: seemly the younger people will have to pay more taxes come the new year 6.5 percent rise isn’t worth anything when there wages be less
Supply chain delays causing inflation
Are you having a laugh
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