The 72-year-old actor Harrison Ford was found him to be “alert and conscious” and suffering “moderate trauma” after crashing the vintage two-seater plane he was piloting on to the green at Penmar golf course near Santa Monica’s municipal airport on Thursday afternoon.

 

Ford is a veteran pilot and has survived at least one previous accident. He was the only occupant of the plane, a Ryan PT-22 Recruit, which was used for training during the second world war.

 

the pilot reported engine trouble and that the plane clipped a tree, severing branches, before ploughing deep grooves in the grass and coming to a halt at the eight tee, crumpled but largely intact.