US Edition Harrison Ford is as much the daredevil in real life as Han Solo, Indiana Jones or the other larger-than-life characters he's played on the silver screen.
Ford, 72, who had reported engine failure to air-traffic controllers, managed to land the plane away from from homes in the area.
He suffered moderate injuries in the landing and was taken by ambulance to a hospital, but is expected to make full recovery.
Here are a few of the accident-prone actor's closer brushes, as well as heroic moments:
Smashes into a telephone pole
Photo: Andrew Winning/Reuters
The scar on his face that lends him a rakish look was earned, he's said, in "a mundane way." In 1964, he was speeding to a job at a department store in Orange County, California, when his car veered off the road and into a telephone pole as he fumbled for his seat belt.
Crash-lands his copter...
Actor Harrison Ford in his Bell 407 helicopter in 2001 (AP)
In 1999, Ford crash-landed his helicopter during a training flight in which he and an instructor were practicing auto rotations in Ventura County, northwest of Los Angeles. Ford and the instructor were unhurt.
...but later rescues female hiker and lost boy scout
He used his helicopter in 2000 to pluck an Idaho Falls, Idaho, hiker off 11,106-foot Table Mountain in Teton County, Wyoming, and fly her to a hospital.
One year later, Ford and another searcher helped find a missing boy scout in a forest south of Yellowstone National Park. "Boy, you sure must have earned a merit badge for this one," said Ford told the cold and hungry teenager after whisking him to safety by chopper.
Harrison Ford with Shropshire Aero Club chief instructor Bob Pooler after being given life membership last year (Bob Pooler)
Clips a runway
Ford was at the helm of a Beechcraft Bonanza in 2000 when wind shear forced him to make an emergency landing at Lincoln Municipal Airport in Nebraska. Ford and his passenger were uninjured when the plane clipped the runway and its wing tips were damaged, officials said.
Hit by a falling door
Harrison Ford after falling while filming Star Wars: Episode VII in 2014 (Splash)
Last year, he was filming "Star Wars: Episode VII" in a studio outside London when a door of Solo's Millennium Falcon spacecraft fell and broke the actor's leg, requiring surgery on it. He recovered and returned to complete his work on the movie.