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LOS ANGELES (Associated Press) — When a man battles Darth Vader, Nazis and other evil-doers for work, what does he do for fun? Harrison Ford finds his answer in a pilot's license and the freedom to take to the skies.
But with adventure comes risk, just as Han Solo, Indiana Jones and other daring movie characters Ford brought to life realized. On Thursday, one of Hollywood's pre-eminent stars added a plane crash to an aviation record that includes both mishaps and service to others.
Ford, 72, who battled Hitler's henchmen in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" as dashing archaeologist Jones, was flying a World War II-era plane when it lost engine power shortly after takeoff from Santa Monica Municipal Airport near Los Angeles. He crash-landed on a golf course next to the airport.
Bystanders who feared the aircraft might explode or catch fire pulled the actor from the plane, and doctors who happened to be playing golf gave him initial help, Los Angeles fire officials said. An ambulance then took him to a hospital in fair to moderate condition.
"He had no other choice but to make an emergency landing, which he did safely," Ford spokeswoman Ina Treciokas said. "He was banged up and is in the hospital receiving medical care."
The injuries are not life-threatening and he is expected to make a full recovery, she said in a statement Thursday night. No one on the ground was hurt.
Ford took off at 2 p.m. Thursday. About 20 minutes later, he told the airport tower that he had engine failure and was making an immediate return, according to a recording posted by LiveATC.net.
The plane had been flying at about 3,000 feet and hit a tree on the way down, according to witnesses and officials.
Ford had a cut to his forehead and scraped arms, but it wasn't clear what internal injuries he may have received, Los Angeles Assistant Fire Chief Patrick Butler said.
"He wasn't a bloody mess. He was alert. He had good vitals," Butler said.
The plane, a yellow 1942 Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR with stars on its wings, had damage mostly confined to the front.
"I would say that this is an absolutely beautifully executed — what we would call — a forced or emergency landing, by an unbelievably well-trained pilot," said Christian Fry of the Santa Monica Airport Association.
Charlie Thomson, a flight instructor at the airport who saw Ford take off, said engine failure like Ford's does not make the plane harder to maneuver. "It just means you have to go down," he said.
Ford crashed on a fairway of Penmar golf course.
"Immediately you could see the engine started to sputter and just cut out, and he banked sharply to the left," said Jeff Kuprycz, who was golfing when he saw the plane taking off.
Kuprycz said there was no explosion when the plane plunged to the ground, "it just sounded like a car hitting the ground or a tree or something. Like that one little bang, and that was it."
Among the first people to reach Ford was a spinal surgeon who had been golfing.
Sanjay Khurana told TV stations in Los Angeles that he found Ford slumped over in the cockpit but conscious.
Aside from worrying about Ford's injuries from the impact, he saw fuel leaking out and became concerned that the plane could explode. As he helped pull Ford from the wreckage, others threw dirt on the fuel.
The airport's single runway sits amid residential neighborhoods in the city of more than 90,000 on the Pacific Ocean. City leaders and many residents advocate closing the airport, citing noise and safety concerns. Other planes taking off or landing there have crashed into homes, and in September 2013 four people died when their small jet veered into a hangar and caught fire.
Ford, who plays the swashbuckling Solo in his fourth "Star Wars" movie set for release in December, is known to shun attention to his private life but has been publicly effusive about his love of flying.
After arriving in his own plane at a 2001 fundraising gala for Seattle's Museum of Flight, Ford said he was glad to help "engage kids in the romance and the mystery and the adventure of flying. ... I know what it means."
Ford got his pilot's license in the 1990s and has made headlines with his flying, though he had never been significantly injured. In 2001, he rescued a missing Boy Scout with his helicopter. Nearly a year before, he rescued an ailing mountain climber in Wyoming.
In 2000, a gust of wind sent a six-seat plane Ford was piloting off a runway in Lincoln, Nebraska. He and his passenger were not injured.
He has also volunteered his services during forest-fire season, when rescue helicopters are busy battling blazes.
The actor, who is married to Calista Flockhart of "Ally McBeal" fame, has said his rescues "had nothing to do with heroism."
"It had to do with flying a helicopter. That's all," he said.
The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash in a process that could take up to a year before a final report. NTSB investigator Patrick Jones said the agency would look at "everything: weather, man, the machine."
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Associated Press writers Andrew Dalton, Robert Jablon, Justin Pritchard and Sandy Cohen in Los Angeles and Alina Hartounian in Phoenix contributed to this story.
WASHINGTON (Associated Press) — President Barack Obama said the type of racial discrimination found in Ferguson, Missouri, is not unique to that police department, and he cast law enforcement reform as a chief struggle for today's civil rights movement.
Obama said improving civil rights and civil liberties with police is one of the areas that "requires collective action and mobilization" 50 years after pivotal civil rights marches brought change to the country. The president made his first remarks about this week's Justice Department report of racial bias in Ferguson, which found officers routinely discriminating against blacks by using excessive force.
"I don't think that is typical of what happens across the country, but it's not an isolated incident," Obama told The Joe Madison Radio Show on Sirius XM radio's Urban View channel. "I think that there are circumstances in which trust between communities and law enforcement have broken down, and individuals or entire departments may not have the training or the accountability to make sure that they're protecting and serving all people and not just some."
Obama's interview was to preview his trip Saturday to Selma, Alabama, where he plans to speak from the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where white police officers beat civil rights protesters on March 7, 1965. Obama last visited Selma in 2007, when he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination and spoke about the responsibility of those who came after the civil rights generation of the '60s to carry on the struggle.
It was a theme he reiterated ahead of his return visit.
In another interview with radio host Tom Joyner, Obama said that despite the progress in race relations over the past 50 years, the Justice Department findings about Ferguson show that civil rights "is an unfinished project."
"There is work to be done right now," he said.
On Friday, Obama was kicking off the weekend's 50th anniversary with a town hall meeting at South Carolina's Benedict College, a historically black college. The White House said Obama plans to speak about efforts young people made throughout history to expand opportunity.
Obama's visit to Columbia is his first trip to South Carolina as president. Obama has just two other states to reach his goal of traveling to all 50 in office — South Dakota and Utah.
The Top Goon Of Philly, Ar-Ab, is preparing to release the second installment of his Mud Musik mixtape series. Here's the first single off of it entitled "Say My Name."
Former NBA All-Star Steve Francis was the victim of a chain snatching at a concert in Houston over the weekend.
Video obtained by TMZ Sports shows Francis on stage at a concert by the Sauce Twinz. Someone creeps up and grabs his chain. It doesn't initially pop and the thief drags Francis a couple of feet with the jewelry still around his neck.
People crowded around, but nobody tried to stop the theft. Eventually, the chain was taken.
Francis played nine years in the NBA after being drafted number two overall in the first round byVancouverin the 1999 draft. He refused to play for the Grizzlies and was traded to theHouston Rockets, where he played for five years before they traded him to theOrlando Magicas part of theTracy McGradydeal. He also played for theNew York Knicks.
**UPDATE** March 6
Steve Francis can thank the Godfather of the Houston rap scene, James Prince, with retrieving his chain.
According to TMZ Sports, Prince, the CEO of Rap-A-Lot Records, is associated with the Sauce Twinz because they are managed by his son Jas Prince's management firm, YEMG.
He also has a close relationship with Francis. All it takes is one call from Prince and you better come correctly and the thief did.
During 50 Cent's recent conversation with DJ Self he explains why he's become a fan of Troy Ave's music and talks about Chris Brown becoming a father.
"I've seen [that kind of situation before]. That's a stick up," 50 said about Chris Brown's situation. "Whenever you see it public without the man that is actually generating the interest [talking about it] then you know what that is. You know where that's coming from and it's not a positive place because it could be dealt with [privately]. Really what we're talking about is a car note. And you're traveling so you don't get to drive that car. That's what that is, child support."
Bobby Shmurda called back into Hot 97 from jail on Thursday, March 5, to finish a conversation that was abruptly cut off last week. Today he had his GS9 partner Rowdy Rebel there with him.
Both said they're not getting any support from Sony or Epic Records. Bobby clarified that the guy saying he's his uncle really isn't related to him and is a fraud, says he's been trying to get in touch with 50 Cent to manage him, has to get money from his mom for commissary because his GS9 affiliate Abillyon went ghost on him and more.
Promoting "Dark Sky Paradise", Big Sean Stopped by The Whoolywood Shuffle. He spoke on #IDFWU being a trending hashtag, his grandmother's influence on his life, and being left out of Illuminati rituals with 2 Chainz. We also tried to get out of him whether or not he's on Kendrick Lamar's sophomore album. See what he had to say. POW!
G-Unit visited the Ebro In the Morning show on Thursday, March 5.
Lloyd Banks reveals he was banging a 40-year old and her daughter, the group talk about why they're releasing EP's, new characters on season 2 of Power, Empire, Taraji P. Henson, Hispanic women, dating, Iggy Azalea needing a publicist, artists with ghost writers, Eminem, Michael Jackson's advice, SMS Promotions, Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao, Anthony Mason's passing and more.
G-Unit is making the promotional rounds to promote their Beast Is G-Unit EP. Angie Martinez invited 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo to the studio to chop it up.
Everybody took shots of Effen Vodka, including 50 Cent. Talked possible 'Get Rich or Dyin 2' movie, His youngest son Sire being the face of a kid's company, problems with his oldest son Marquise, their fast transition to success, not letting money change them, 50's taste in women, Vivica Fox, Ciara, Chelsea Handler, season 2 of Power, Frigo deal, was 50 a bully on the block in Queensbridge?
In 1995 when Suge Knight bailed Tupac Shakur out of Clinton Correctional Facility while he appealed his rape conviction, he also signed him to a deal with Death Row Records.
At the time the label was co-owned by Dr. Dre and Suge.
There were rumors of tension (although never confirmed) among some artists at the label because 'Pac instantly became it's biggest star.
50 Cent recently weighed in on the situation. Because Dre was unhappy at the time and Suge was desperate to make sure he held onto 2Pac, 50 believes Suge was plotting against his business partner.
"Suge was gonna kill Dre," theG-Unitmogul said viaHipHopDX.
"How do I keep [2Pac]?" 50 said of Suge's possible thought process at the time.. "Maybe I'll give him Dre's half. I don't know. Something might have to happen to Dre."
Luckily, we'll never know what Suge had planned because Dre walked away to start his own label, Aftermath.
The "My Life' rapper went on to say that he and Dre are not as close as they once were.
"I don't call to talk to him for no reason," 50 continued. "I think that relationship was business. For a long time, I was a New York Knick player in the middle of the LA locker room. Interscope was the West Coast when it was East Coast-West Coast going on, and I never really saw them respond properly to Game's disrespect when it happened 'cause they had some sort of allegiance to the West or something. I was like, ' You know I wrote the records?' Overall, I think the disconnect between me and Jimmy created the distance between me and Dre."
Tony Yayo chimed in on the Dre situation. In his opinion the producer wasn't loyal to G-Unit, even after they fought off his attacker at the 2004 Vibe Awards.
"We beat somebody up for Dr. Dre," Yayo said. "I could say it now. No disrespect to LA, but it was a whole bunch of New York dudes beating somebody up for Dre. He's cool. I like his music and everything. I just feel when you beat somebody up I feel like they owe you a little bit."
What's your take on G-Unit's relationship with Dr. Dre? And the idea that Suge was plotting Dre's demise?
Here are the first photos of Chris Brown's nine-month old daughter, Royalty.
As we previously reported, the child was conceived with a model named Nia Amey, real name Nia Gonzalez. The news caught Chris' girlfriend Karrueche Tran completely off guard. Not only is Nia a friend of hers, TMZ reports that Chris didn't tell Tran about the child until right before the story broke.
The situation was enough for Tran to publicly end her relationship with Chris via Twitter.
Fast rising R&B singer Tinashe releases an official music video for her new single entitled "Bated Breath." This is off of her Aquarius album. Grab it from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/aquarius/id911472229.