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FAA Clears Harrison Ford In Hawthorne Runway Mishap
HAWTHORNE (CBSLA) – Actor Harrison Ford has been cleared following an investigation into a piloting incident which occurred Hawthorne Municipal Airport in April. The Federal Aviation Administration has closed the case after requiring that the 78-year-old Ford take a “remedial runway incursion training course,” an FAA spokesperson told CBSLA in a statement Thursday. On the afternoon of April 24, the “Indiana Jones” star was landing a small plane known as an Aviat Husky when he crossed an airplane… (losangeles.cbslocal.com) Plus d'info...This is the way runway incursions are handled. Celebrity, nobody, student, whatever. A visit to the tower, a few minutes contrition, everyone walks away. Mr. Ford seems to be handled the same way as every other situation I ever saw like this. Even the ones that scared the living daylights out of every controller in the tower.
me too, was a tower controller... bone headed pilots seldom got punished.. FAA flight guys would just laugh it off... on the other hand, had a few occasions where pilots saved my ass...
This kind of thing happens a lot in government. The rich, and/or famous get away with stuff that any one of us would be rotting in jail for.
And corporate 'fines' are the biggest joke. A chemical plant 'leaked' toxins in the river in their backyard. They were investigated, and after years, were finally fined. It was the largest state fine ever, and one of the highest fines for that type of contamination. Sounds impressive, right? A few years later, the same corporation was found to be polluting AGAIN. People kept asking why they were still polluting after being fined 'so much'. Well, the state was unusually quiet. Someone finally filed a FOIA request, and the state coughed up a ton of documents, trying to bry the requestor with unneeded stuff, and one document told of how the MASSIVE FINE was 'negotiated' to a fraction of what it was. No wonder they did it again. What was the price they paid for doing it the previous time? Nearly nothing.
Most governmental fines are subject to negotiation. Kinda makes 'regulations' rather pointless.
And corporate 'fines' are the biggest joke. A chemical plant 'leaked' toxins in the river in their backyard. They were investigated, and after years, were finally fined. It was the largest state fine ever, and one of the highest fines for that type of contamination. Sounds impressive, right? A few years later, the same corporation was found to be polluting AGAIN. People kept asking why they were still polluting after being fined 'so much'. Well, the state was unusually quiet. Someone finally filed a FOIA request, and the state coughed up a ton of documents, trying to bry the requestor with unneeded stuff, and one document told of how the MASSIVE FINE was 'negotiated' to a fraction of what it was. No wonder they did it again. What was the price they paid for doing it the previous time? Nearly nothing.
Most governmental fines are subject to negotiation. Kinda makes 'regulations' rather pointless.