Celebrities Who Survived Plane Crashes [Photos] - Page 9
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Harrison Ford is reportedly doing A-OK and is expected to recover after crashing his single-engine airplane on a golf course right outside of Los Angeles. The 72-year-old legendary actor is currently resting in the hospital in stable condition.
Embed from Getty ImagesAlthough the action movies he’s starred in allude to this type of news for Ford, you’ll be surprised at the celebrities who survived plane crashes and went on to smile about.
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Barack Obama
Back in the 2008, when was known as Senator Obama, the future commander-in-chief’s plane actually crashed into another aircraft at Midway airport. Luckily, there were no injuries.
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Sandra Bullock
While coming from Texas to Wyoming during the 2000 holiday season, Bullock was on a plane that completely missed the runway and landed parallel to the ground. No injuries were reported.
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Travis Barker
One of Hip-Hop’s biggest go-to drummers famously survived a plane crash alongside his best friend DJ AM. He was hospitalized for several weeks following the accident, however.
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Ashton Kutcher & Demi Moore
Kutcher famously tweeted, “My plane just had to do an emergency landing. Engine over heated. Fire engines everywhere. Good times.”
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Bono
The door of the plane the U2 legend was flying in November of 2014 actually came off. They were actually able to land safely in Berlin and flying two hours from Dublin,
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Patrick Swayze
June 1, 2000, the late Dirty Dancing star noticed a problem with his plane and made an emergency landing, hitting a street lamp, an electrical utility box and a stop sign. Thankfully, he and his two dogs were unharmed.
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DJ AM
Adam Goldstein survived the same September 19, 2008 crash as Travis Barker did but he succumbed to a drug overdose less than a year later.
Miranda Lambert
The country music star experienced an in-flight scare on a private jet during Summer of 2014…but lived to laugh about it.
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Ben Cauley
Otis Redding’s trumpet player was the only survivor from the 1967 plane crash that claimed the lives of the soul singer and several original members of the Bar-Kays.
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Ed Robertson
The Barenaked Ladies frontman and his passengers walked away from a crash August 24, 2008 injury-free.
Allen Collins
Although he was severely injured, the “Free Bird” guitarist survived–and recovered–from the infamous crash that killed much of the core of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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John McCain
The longtime U.S. senator’s plane crash story actually came during the Vietnam War when he was shot down and forced to become a prisoner of war for many years.
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Harrison Ford
Believe it or not, Ford crashed the N36R helicopter he was flying in 1999. He apparently takes his role as Han Solo very seriously.
