--- description: Harrison Ford will not face disciplinary action after he flew dangerously close to a jetliner while landing at a California airport title: Harrison Ford Won't Face Disciplinary Action After Close-Call Plane Landing image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0aa1f7a3bb3d5e18/6988c10c7cdbac5f53d57b53/harrison-ford-plane-landing.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Harrison Ford Won't Face Disciplinary Action After Close-Call Plane Landing  by [Katie Reilly](/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 4, 2017 12:01 AM CUT  Harrison Ford attends Muhammad Ali's Celebrity Fight Night XXIII at the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa on March 18, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona. Harrison Ford attends Muhammad Ali's Celebrity Fight Night XXIII at the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa on March 18, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona.Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 4, 2017 12:01 AM CUT [Harrison Ford](http://time.com/4584709/carrie-fisher-harrison-ford-affair-ellen-show/?iid=sr-link4 "undefined") will not face disciplinary action after he [flew dangerously close to a jetliner](http://time.com/4671232/harrison-ford-plane-crash-la-airport-2017/?iid=sr-link2 "undefined") while mistakenly landing on a taxiway at a California airport in February. The Federal Aviation Administration decided not to take any enforcement action but mandated some extra training, which Ford has completed already, the 74-year-old actor’s attorney said Monday, [according to the Los Angeles _Times_](http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ford-taxiway-agreement-20170331-story.html "undefined"). “Mr. Ford retains his pilot’s certificate without restriction,” the attorney, Stephen Hofer, told the _Times_. “In closing the matter, the agency acknowledged Mr. Ford’s long history of compliance with the federal aviation regulations and his cooperative attitude during the investigation.” Ford, who has had a pilot’s certificate for 20 years, landed his private plane on a taxiway at John Wayne Airport in Orange County after being cleared for landing on one of the airport’s runways. He said he was distracted by the American Airlines jetliner awaiting takeoff and the wake turbulence caused by another plane. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4724102/harrison-ford-plane-landing-disciplinary-action-airport/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4724102/harrison-ford-plane-landing-disciplinary-action-airport/"},"headline":"Harrison Ford Won't Face Disciplinary Action After Close-Call Plane Landing","datePublished":"2017-04-04T00:01:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:11:03.096Z","description":"Flying his private plane, the actor narrowly missed a jetliner waiting to take off","url":"https://time.com/4724102/harrison-ford-plane-landing-disciplinary-action-airport/","keywords":["celebrities","California","Aviation","harrison ford","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0aa1f7a3bb3d5e18/6988c10c7cdbac5f53d57b53/harrison-ford-plane-landing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0aa1f7a3bb3d5e18/6988c10c7cdbac5f53d57b53/harrison-ford-plane-landing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Muhammad Ali's Celebrity Fight Night XXIII","caption":"Muhammad Ali's Celebrity Fight Night XXIII","creditText":"Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4724102/harrison-ford-plane-landing-disciplinary-action-airport/","name":"Harrison Ford Won't Face Disciplinary Action After Close-Call Plane Landing"}}]}] ```