We’re all accustomed to seeing our favorite stars doing some pretty incredible, brave,
and action-packed moves on the screen.
Most of the big names have been in at least some action or adventure offerings, and they
usually look pretty badass doing it.
But it’s a whole other thing when these stars are involved in real-life emergency
situations.
Then, they don’t have the magic of CGI, scripts, and choreography to help them out.
They are just a susceptible to accidents as anyone.
In this video, we’re taking a look at a few Hollywood stars who have been in plane
crashes and lived to tell the tale.
From Harrison Ford to Jennifer Lawrence, and Sandra Bullock, you’ll find out about famous
stars who managed to come out the other side of a harrowing ordeal (or several).
Join Facts Verse, as we present: Celebrities Who Survived Plane Crashes
Jennifer Lawrence Jennifer Lawrence may have been through all
kinds of harrowing ordeals on screen, but those have all come thanks to the effects
of movie magic.
In real life, Lawrence’s life is much more chill and involves the glitz and glamour that
a Hollywood A-lister is usually afforded.
However, an episode in 2017 made for a very movie-like event.
Jennifer shared the story in 2021 with Vanity Fair and went into detail about her 2017 brush
with death on an airplane.
She was flying on a private plane from NYC to Louisville, Kentucky.
Things were pretty routine until suddenly there was a loud sound.
That was followed by a change in air pressure.
Lawrence said she could sense something was wrong.
She said one of the other passengers went up to the cockpit and asked the pilot about
it.
The pilot informed them that one of the engines had gone out.
But the passenger was assured that the plane was still perfectly safe and that they could
land with only one engine running.
That was all well and good until the other engine decided it too was done working.
At that point, it was pure panic mode.
Lawrence said that she started calling and leaving voicemails to her loved ones, thinking
she was about to die.
She said she told them that she’d had a good life and that she was sorry to be leaving
them so early.
And she also remarked that her skeleton “was all that was left in the seat” at that moment.
Amazingly, the pilot did an incredible and heroic job that day and managed to land the
plane in Buffalo.
The plane did a hard landing, and despite the danger, no one aboard was even injured.
The next issue was that Jennifer needed to get aboard a new plane in order to get to
Louisville.
She gritted her death and got aboard.
That flight went off without a hitch.
When asked if she subscribes to the idea that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,
Lawrence says she doesn’t.
She claimed the ordeal made her, in fact, weaker.
She also pointed out that she has to constantly fly for her line of work, and still hates
it to this day.
Patrick Swayze Patrick Swayze was one of the biggest movie
heartthrobs in the 1980s and 1990s when he charmed us in movies like Ghost and Dirty
Dancing.
And while we all know that his life was cut tragically short by cancer, it was nearly
cut even shorter by a plane crash.
It happened in 2000, on a flight from Van Nuys, CA, to Las Vegas.
What makes his story different from most is that he was actually flying the plane.
Patrick was an FAA-licensed pilot who had his instrument rating, so that meant he was
very much capable of flying his Cessna airplane.
On June 1st, he was in the middle of his flight when he heard a loud sound.
The plane was up at 13,000 feet, so he knew he potentially had trouble on his hands.
His dogs started barking from the back of the plane, giving Swayze and indicator that
he had lost cabin pressure.
He knew he had to immediately lower the plane and find somewhere to land it.
He was able to glide it down, but there was no airport in his direct area.
He actually thought he saw one, so he aimed for it.
But it was only as he made the final approach that he realized it was just a housing development
in Prescott Valley, Arizona, that happened to look like a small airport from a couple
thousand feet up.
But by that point, Swayze had no choice.
He set the plane down in the streets and knocked down a stop sign and some streetlights as
the plane ran through a local intersection.
But thankfully, it was a safe landing and there were no injuries.
Swayze later talked to CNN about the incident, saying he had no recollection of hitting anything
on the ground because he was so focused on putting the plane down safely.
There was, however, a bit of scandal after the accident.
According to news reports, several people helped Swayze remove alcohol from the plane
after the landing, so it wouldn’t look like he’d been drinking.
They then helped drive him to a nearby hotel.
Swayze, through a representative, denied that there was ever booze on board.
Harrison Ford One of Harrison Ford’s most legendary movies
is Air Force One, where he plays the President of the United States, and has to stop hijackers
who have taken over his plane.
So most people have literally scene Ford in a dodgy situation aboard a plane.
However, that was all fiction.
In real life though, Ford has been involved in multiple events involving his own planes.
One of the most notable happened in 2015.
Ford, who has his pilot’s license and flies frequently, was aboard a WWII training plane.
Things went awry, and the plane went down in Venice, CA, only a few minutes after taking
off from Santa Monica.
Ford’s plane reportedly had engine trouble upon take off, forcing it back down to the
ground very quickly.
Later the NTSB said a carburetor part suffered a mechanical failure, leading to engine failure.
The plane came down on a golf course with “medium to high impact.”
Harrison suffered some minor injuries, though they were severe enough that he was taken
to a local hospital.
At the time, his son tweeted that his dad was okay, despite being a bit battered.
Ben later talked to the NY Times about the incident and reassured readers that his dad
is as tough as his fans think and that he’s incredibly strong.
Amazingly, Ford has dodged this type of bullet other times in his life.
In 1999, he was in training for flying a helicopter when it had to make an emergency landing.
The copter touched down in Santa Clarita, CA, before tipping over.
Harrison emerged unscathed.
Then in 2000, he was on a runway in Lincoln, Nebraska, when a strong wind forced his plane
off the runway.
And in 2017, he almost flew his small plane into the path of a 747!
Looks like Ford has made a habit of not only escaping action sequences in the movies but
also in real life!
Sandra Bullock Sandra Bullock is one of Hollywood’s most
cherished actresses.
And she first gained fame by surviving the harrowing events of the runaway bus in the
movie Speed.
But Sandra’s action exploits haven’t only been in the movies.
In 2000, she was in a minor crash in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
She was traveling there with her then-boyfriend, Bob Schneider, for a brief vacation.
The flight itself went fine, but the landing had some issues.
Apparently, after the plane touched down on the runway, it skidded off the runway.
The pilot had reportedly mistaken one of the runway lights because of the hazardous flying
conditions.
But he managed to control the skid enough that no one on board was hurt.
But it was certainly a scary way to touch down for Sandra and Bob, and anyone else on
board.
Sandra also revealed that she had another incident involving a plane later on, though
it was a decidedly non-flying one.
She had just finished the movie “Hope Floats” and was flying around the country to do press
and publicity for it.
She and her costar, Harry Connick Jr. were all set to board a private plane for one of
the legs of the trip.
As she was about to get on board, she realized she needed to grab something from her bag,
which was still on the tarmac, waiting to be put in.
As she turned, she didn’t realize she was so close to the wing of the plane.
She smashed into it, face first, sending her glasses flying off.
She told Entertainment Weekly that all she remembers is a flash of light upon impact.
Unfortunately either the wing itself or her glasses ended up giving her a pretty nasty
cut over her eye.
Bullock said there was blood rushing every way, and she had to get immediate medical
attention.
She ended up getting a black eye as well and had to cancel her press events because of
it.
Clearly, these celebs were lucky to have survived these harrowing incidents.
It’s amazing to consider the fact that we nearly lost these cherished stars well before
their times.
It’s also amazing to think about people like Harrison Ford, who has had multiple incidents
in the sky and yet continues to fly all the time.
Fortunately, he and the other celebs in this video managed to survive their plane mishaps
and have continued working and enjoying life.
Now it’s time to hear from you.
Have you ever been involved in a scary incident on an aircraft?
Let us know in the comments section below!