Harrison Ford Says Wife Calista Flockhart Doesn’t Fly With Him in Vintage Planes After Near-Death Accident

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It’s no Millennium Falcon! Harrison Ford revealed that Calista Flockhart refuses to fly in “vintage” planes with him after his near-fatal accident in 2015.“My wife does not fly with me in vintage airplanes anymore — she will in others,” the Star Wars star*, 80, told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Wednesday, February 8.The actor, for his part, recalled that the March 2015 incident — in which he was flying a WWII plane that clipped a tree and landed on a golf course in Venice, California, causing him to sustain serious injuries — “was really hard on my family and it was hard on me.”Ford is a father of five; he shares sons Benjamin, 56, and Willard, 53, with first wife Mary Marquardt; son Malcolm, 35, and daughter Georgia, 32, with second wife Melissa Mathison; as well as son Liam, 21, with Flockhart, Ford’s partner of more than 20 years.

Ford and Flockhart, 58, married in 2010.In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies“I certainly don’t want to have to recover from that kind of accident again,” the Indiana Jones star told the outlet, adding that he did go “back to flying” after the accident. “I know what happened.

So that’s part of the reason [I went back]. There was a mechanical issue with the airplane I could not have known about or attended to in any way,” he explained. “So in the words of the great philosopher Jimmy Buffett: ’S—t happens.’”At the time, Ford’s rep issued a statement to Us Weekly noting that the Academy Award winner “was flying a WWII vintage plane today which had engine trouble upon take off.

He had no other choice but to make an emergency landing, which he did safely.”The statement continued, “He was banged up and is in the hospital receiving medical care.