Harrison Ford Critically Injured in Plane Crash

[jimmy olsen]

 

At least he walked away.

http://variety.com/2015/biz/news/harrison-ford-plane-crash-1201447290/

March 5, 2015 | 03:34PM PT

Alex Stedman
News Editor, Variety.com@a_sted

Harrison Ford is in critical condition after crash landing a plane in Venice, Calif. on Thursday, according to several reports.

The 72-year-old crash landed on Penmar Golf Course after something apparently went wrong mechanically with the single-engine plane at around 2:25 p.m. Ford was transferred to a local hospital in critical condition with head injuries. The actor was the only one aboard the plane and the only person who sustained injuries.

Ford reportedly walked away from the crash, and was later attended to by two physicians who were on the scene.

There was blood all over his face," Howard Tabe, an employee at the Penmar Golf Course, told NBC News. "Two very fine doctors were treating him, taking good care of him. I helped put a blanket under his hip."

Ford is an avid pilot, and has crashed before with minimal injuries.

TMZ was the first to report the news about Ford.

[Josephus]

Did he finish his bits for Star wars?

[Tamas]

Did he finish his bits for Star wars?

I sure hope so. And that he survives this.

[Liep]

And that he survives this.

"The actor, who was conscious and breathing when rescue crews reached him, was stabilized and taken to a hospital, where he was in fair to moderate condition"

Sounds like he will.

[alfred russel]

Ford is an avid pilot, and has crashed before with minimal injuries.

Just last night I was watching a replay of him on Conan where he talked about his flying (and his emergency response: "shit and die, in that order"), and was thinking, I don't know if I'd be comfortable with him as a pilot.

[Caliga]

  I beat Tim to the punch in the OTT.

[CountDeMoney]

Penmar Golf Course
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later attended to by two physicians who were on the scene.

Wouldn't have found as many doctors if he had flown it into Cedar Sinai.

[mongers]

What's the plane a P-23 ?


No idea if that's it, the number just rings a bell.

[Capetan Mihali]

Everyone's so down on drug addicts and smokers (who actually use less healthcare dollars than nonsmokers since) for wasting medical attention, but what about these private pilots and skiers and extreme sportsmen who are really just taking huge physical risks for kicks?  They don't seem to get the same reprimands.

[jimmy olsen]

Everyone's so down on drug addicts and smokers (who actually use less healthcare dollars than nonsmokers since) for wasting medical attention, but what about these private pilots and skiers and extreme sportsmen who are really just taking huge physical risks for kicks?  They don't seem to get the same reprimands.

They're hardly the societal strain that tens of millions of smokers, heavy drinkers and drug useres are, there just aren't that many of them and on the whole they're mostly middle or upper class.

[Capetan Mihali]

ER beds are ER beds.  Note my parenthetical, smokers actually aren't a strain on the medical system: they die earlier and cheaper than healthier non-smokers who have countless interventions for things in their 80s, etc.  And drug users requiring ER care are a very small number of people, who've usually OD'd and can be resuscitated with a single injection or have abscesses that are easily lanced.  Unlike complex orthopedic problems from skiing accidents or private plane crashes.

[CountDeMoney]

What's the plane a P-23 ?


No idea if that's it, the number just rings a bell.

Looks like some sort of trainer or maybe just a barnstormer with interwar livery.

edit: it's a Ryan PT-22 Recruit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_PT-22_Recruit

[CountDeMoney]

ER beds are ER beds.  Note my parenthetical, smokers actually aren't a strain on the medical system: they die earlier and cheaper than healthier non-smokers who have countless interventions for things in their 80s, etc.  And drug users requiring ER care are a very small number of people, who've usually OD'd and can be resuscitated with a single injection or have abscesses that are easily lanced.  Unlike complex orthopedic problems from skiing accidents or private plane crashes.

I find it incredibly interesting that I am applying to medical systems that are no longer hiring smokers, are conducting pre-employment screening for nicotine and smoking-cessation aids,  and are conducting random testing for nicotine products as a condition of employment--particularly since in all my travels I've never once seen an accident victim peeled out of a windshield and zipped into a body bag from smoking, never locked up or bailed out anybody for beating the shit out of the family due to smoking, or tripped over a doctor passed out in a hospital stairwell from being drunk on cigarettes.

You can't have that celebratory cigar at your best friend's wedding over the weekend and keep your job if you're tested--but you can suck down a fifth of Jack Daniels like it's nobody's fucking business, beat the shit out of your kid and keep your job.

The hypocrisy is positively staggering.

[PDH]

ER beds are ER beds.  Note my parenthetical, smokers actually aren't a strain on the medical system: they die earlier and cheaper than healthier non-smokers who have countless interventions for things in their 80s, etc.  And drug users requiring ER care are a very small number of people, who've usually OD'd and can be resuscitated with a single injection or have abscesses that are easily lanced.  Unlike complex orthopedic problems from skiing accidents or private plane crashes.

I find it incredibly interesting that I am applying to medical systems that are no longer hiring smokers, are conducting pre-employment screening for nicotine and smoking-cessation aids,  and are conducting random testing for nicotine products as a condition of employment--particularly since in all my travels I've never once seen an accident victim peeled out of a windshield and zipped into a body bag from smoking, never locked up or bailed out anybody for beating the shit out of the family due to smoking, or tripped over a doctor passed out in a hospital stairwell from being drunk on cigarettes.

You can't have that celebratory cigar at your best friend's wedding over the weekend and keep your job if you're tested--but you can suck down a fifth of Jack Daniels like it's nobody's fucking business, beat the shit out of your kid and keep your job.

The hypocrisy is positively staggering.

Smoking is bad.

[CountDeMoney]

Smoking is bad.

Drinking is worse.