The 73-year-old actor of Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark fame was injured in the crash but has since recovered. The crash in March of a vintage single-engine airplane piloted by actor Harrison Ford is being blamed on a malfunction in the engine, according to a report released by the National Transportation Safety Board.Īfter reporting a loss of power on March 5, Ford crashed-landed his Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR - a restored World War II-era trainer - on a golf course near the Santa Monica Airport where the plane had taken off just minutes before.
Federal safety investigators have concluded that a problem with a carburetor part led to engine failure. Inscribed with a description of the evening and a rendering of the alien craft from the story, the monument stands in a quiet location near a pond.Officials work on the scene of a vintage airplane that had been piloted by actor Harrison Ford when it crash-landed in March on the Penmar Golf Course in the Venice area of Los Angeles. In 1988, the unincorporated community of Grover’s Mill-the very real town featured as the landing site of the very fictional Martian invasion-erected an eight-foot-high bronze monument to this unique event in broadcasting history. The program was accused of being deceptive, leading to calls for stricter regulations to prevent similar scares from occurring in the future. Although many stories of widespread panic and chaos have been debunked over the years, the broadcast did resonate with many Americans and some were legitimately afraid. In an era before news and information could be quickly and easily verified, and in a country tense during the buildup to World War II, some listeners believed the fictional broadcast was of a real event. The performance, presented by actor and filmmaker Orson Welles, consisted of simulated news bulletins reporting on the crash landing and subsequent invasion of Earth by Martians. The words above were broadcast on the evening of October 30, 1938, as part of a radio drama adaptation of the H.G. What I can see of the object itself doesn’t look very much like a meteor, at least not the meteors I have seen.
The ground is covered with splinters of a tree it must have struck on its way down. Yes, I guess-that’s the thing, directly in front of me, half buried in a vast pit. I haven’t had a chance to look around yet.
Well, I-I hardly know where to begin to paint for you a word picture of the strange scene before my eyes, like something out of a modern Arabian Nights.” Professor Pierson and myself made the 11 miles from Princeton in 10 minutes. “Ladies and gentlemen, this is Carl Phillips again, out at the Wilmuth farm, Grover’s Mill, New Jersey.
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