circumstances, laguardia is a tricky landing. the approaches can be steep taen it s surrounded by water as national airport is. reporter: that is correct. laguardia s runways about 7,000 feet that is a shorter average than other airports more of a precise landing and is built out there on the pier. some of the freezing can happen faster than you might think out there. on a good day i ve talked to some pilots who enjoy flying into laguardia but things can get hairy and you have to be on your toes. sarah dallof thank you very much. on the west coast it was a very close call. an emergency landing on a golf course only one block from a heavily populated residential area of santa monica california, a world war ii vintage plain piloted by 72-year-old actor, harrison ford. look he s gliding in right here. oh, no. i hope he s going to be make
took him to the grass and laid him down. hallie, one of the things about this harrison ford an experienced aviator had a hard landing with a helicopter that he was in i guess back in 1999 but only a year ago he had a very serious accident on the set of the star wars movie and seriously broken shattered his leg and been in rehab. he s had a tough couple of years. hallie, can we hear you can you hear me? i think we ve i think we ve lost contact with hallie jackson out there. but our thanks to her. right there in front of the plane the harrison ford vintage plane which of course was crushed in that crash. the highways are clear in kentucky today after a freak storm stranded drivers on a
then i saw the runway and it was just white. you don t realize how fast a plane is coming in to land when there s to brakes. so you re sliding you re literally sliding for thousands of feet and you know what s happening but your mind can t really get there. that exclusive interview from the today show joining me now sara dollof what have they learned so far about the reasons for the crash? we know several other planes had landed on the same runway minutes before. reporter: that is correct andrea, and the pilots of those planes had reported that the braking conditions were good. they didn t have any problems stopping or slowing down. airport managers also say the runway had recently been plowed but obviously weather is going to be a big factor that investigators look at during the next several months. it was snowing at the time pretty rough conditions out there yesterday. the ntsb assigned two teams to this incident one team is going to focus on passengers and the pi
it. oh, man [ bleep ]. oh, no. come on dude. ford was seriously injured and is recovering today in the hospital. he had radioed the control tower just after takeoff. 53178 engine failure with immediate return. clear to land. ntsb investigators have arrived at the scene, ford s son tweeted afterward that his father is battered but okay he s expected to make a full recovery. hallie jackson joins me. it is very scary and could have been a whole lot worse. reporter: andrea harrison ford is in fair to mod rad condition at the hospital. he did go surgery, a broken arm and nasty gash in the head. amazing thing, you can see the plane behind me here. ntsb is on the scene. a couple of hundred feet a residential street a lot of