Harrison Ford in near miss with passenger plane

Harrison Ford flew ‘dangerously close’ to a commercial passenger plane while flying his own private aircraft, according to reports.

According to NBC News, the 74-year-old ‘Star Wars’ actor was landing his single-engine plane at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, on Monday when the incident occurred.

Rather than the runway he was cleared to land on, he instead flew over an American Airlines 737 passenger plane bound for Dallas with 110 passengers on board.

Ford was reportedly heard to say on air traffic control recordings ‘Was that airliner meant to be underneath me?’

Ford was then told that he’d landed on a taxiway by mistake.

The US Federal Aviation Administration told NBC that Ford had been given the correct landing instructions, and that he had read them back.

An investigation will be opened, it added, and if the actor is found to have been at fault, could have his pilot’s licence suspended.

It’s not the first time Ford, who’s trained as a pilot since the 60s and bought his own jet in the 90s, has been involved in an aviation incident.

He was involved in the crash of a helicopter in 1999, and had to make an emergency landing in his plane on a golf course in California in 2015, after it suffered an engine failure.

Ford suffered a broken pelvis and a broken ankle in the crash.

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