Fernando Leon/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Harrison Ford has been released from the hospital following his plane crash and is on the mend in Los Angeles, says his friend, producer Frank Marshall.
“Harrison is at home and he’s up and about,” Marshall told Variety while walking the red carpet Tuesday to promote his HBO doc, Sinatra: All or Nothing at All. “I talked to him yesterday and he’s doing really well. He’s pretty banged up, but he’s recovering remarkably. He wants to play tennis.”
The 72-year-old Indiana Jones actor crashed a single-engine, World War II-era plane on a golf course near Santa Monica, California’s municipal airport on March 5 after his plane’s engine reportedly quit and he attempted to return to the airport. He was transported to UCLA Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Ford’s decision to turn in such away that he flew over the golf course, rather than over nearby homes, has been widely praised as a potentially life-saving one.
“That’s the thing you would expect him to do in a movie, but he did it in real life!” Marshall, who’s produced all of the Indiana Jones movies, said of the incident. “He’s a really good pilot. I’ve talked to a lot of pilots who said that was a hell of a landing and he did everything correct in that situation. He made an incredible landing, to his credit. He is, after all, Indiana Jones.”
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