Months after making a crash landing in a Los Angles golf course, Harrison Ford is able to joke about his horrific experience.
“This was not a movie,” the 73-year-old actor quipped on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday night.
In March, Ford was flying his vintage World War II plane when the engine stalled. He suffered a large laceration across his head, a broken ankle and pelvis.
“Yeah, I remember,” Ford said. “Not all of it, I remember some of it. I remember the engine stopping, I remember that part very well. And then I remember the tower, I remember their suggestion. Their suggestion was that I take the normal route to land and I knew I wasn’t going to do that, so I said no. And that’s the last thing I remember until five days afterwards actually.”
The amount of general anesthesia he received induced “retrograde amnesia” — a condition where memory before an injury is erased.
Ford spent nearly a month in a hospital recovering and was flying again three months later.
The National Transportation Safety Board said the plane’s carburetor led to engine failure causing the crash.
Despite the scary time, he was able to make fun of the incident. “You landed on a golf course did you yell ‘Fore!’ as you came down,” Kimmel joked.
“For…D!” the Star War veteran added.