article_snippet: The Hollywood star, who was rushed to hospital after crashing a vintage plane in Venice, California on Thursday, also slammed a helicopter into a riverbed back in 1999.
article_snippet: Pictured, an aerial view of the crash .
article_snippet: The unidentified flying instructor who was aboard with the actor was forced to take over the controls and try to level a helicopter but The unidentified flying instructor who was aboard with the actor was unable to do so and the aircraft came crashing down into the Lake Piru riverbed near Santa Clarita and flipped over.
article_snippet: Luckily Ford, and the unnamed instructor, were unharmed in the crash but a helicopter was 'substantially damaged', according to the document.
article_snippet: Coincidentally a helicopter was registered to MG Aviation – the same firm to which the 1942 vintage plane involved in Ford's latest crash is registered to.
article_snippet: The official report, which does not name Ford or his instructor, states: 'On October 23, 1999, at 1115 hours Pacific daylight time, a Bell 206-L4, N36R, landed hard and rolled over in the Lake Piru riverbed near Santa Clarita, California. '
article_snippet: The helicopter, operated by MG Aviation, Teterboro, New Jersey, under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 91, was substantially damaged.'
article_snippet: the document goes on to say that the pilot reported that the pilot 'successfully completed one practice autorotation and entered a second approximately 600 feet agl.'
article_snippet: The certified flying instructor (CFI) flying with the Star Wars legend, reported that, 'the pilot had been late bringing in the power and the pilot had gotten on the controls during the flare to help the pilot and level a helicopter. '
article_snippet: the pilot reported that when the pilot realized there was a lack of power, the pilot tried to push the nose over. '
article_snippet: Tests carried out on a helicopter following the crash found 'no abnormalities' in the cockpit controls, engine or other parts of the aircraft.
article_snippet: The six-seater Beech Bonanza aircraft was forced to land due to bad weather conditions and The six-seater Beech Bonanza aircraft clipped the runway damaging the wings.
article_snippet: With my first helicopter, I had an issue with fuel control once, which resulted in substantial damage to the helicopter prop but no injuries to the two souls aboard.
article_snippet: Seasoned aviator: Ford, who has been flying planes since the 1960s, was the only person in the two-seater World War Two-era plane at the time of a helicopter crash .
article_snippet: Fellow aviators have come out in praise of the star for managing to navigate the two-seater World War Two-era plane away from the nearby residential area and on to an empty part of the golf course, with one experienced pilot stating 'everything one experienced pilot did was perfect'.
highlights_snippet: Movie star, 72, has been hailed a hero in his latest plane crash when his vintage plane came down on a golf course in Venice, California .
  
highlights_snippet: his has crashed before and in 1999 his helicopter flipped and slammed into river bed near Santa Clarita, north-east of Los Angeles .
  