There are a number of celebrities who died from airplane crashes and different aviation incidents over the previous few a long time. Nevertheless, there have additionally been fairly a couple of survivors. A handful of stars walked away with their lives after experiencing midair points and/or full-out crash-landings.
Beneath, Hollywood Life has compiled a few of the most well-known faces who’ve been concerned in harrowing aviation incidents.
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford was piloting a World Warfare II plane in 2015, which crashed right into a Los Angeles golf course. He was hospitalized for a number of damaged bones however recovered. Nevertheless, the incident stayed in Harrison’s thoughts for some time, which he identified throughout a 2025 intervene with The Wall Road Journal. Whereas recounting a rehearsal on the set of 1923, the veteran actor in contrast his real-life skilled together with his character’s from the present.
“I watched a rehearsal with a stand-in being introduced into the kitchen, and Helen [Mirren] coming in, sweeping every part off the counter, taking command,” Harris recalled. “Even after I speak about it now, it emotionally pertains to the airplane crash I had and what my spouse went via.”
Bono
Bono was not concerned in a airplane crash — but it surely was a detailed name. The U2 vocalist was flying over Germany on a Learjet in 2014, and a door broke off whereas within the air. The airplane landed safely regardless of the harrowing midair second.
Travis Barker
Travis Barker was on a Learjet 60 enterprise jet in 2008 with a number of different individuals, together with DJ AM, when it crashed throughout takeoff in South Carolina. The airplane had a tire burst, and the pilot knowledgeable air site visitors management that sparks had been emanating from the plane. Upon stopping the takeoff, the flames worsened, and solely Travis and AM escaped the jet with second and third-degree burns on their our bodies.
Travis was within the hospital for nearly three months following the accident. He suffered from post-traumatic stress dysfunction (PTSD) for years out of a concern of flying, and he didn’t get on a airplane once more till 2021.
Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock was on a enterprise jet that crashed in Jackson Gap, Wyoming, in 2000. The airplane skidded off the runway. Miraculously, the actress and the opposite passengers and flight crew onboard survived.
Wilmer Valderrama, Ashton Kutcher & Danny Masterson
In Wilmer Valderrama‘s memoir, An American Story: Everybody’s Invited, the That ’70s Present alum recounted a daunting aviation incident with co-stars Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson. It’s unclear when the incident occurred, however Wilmer described the scary ordeal in his e-book.
“I’m feeling lightheaded,” he wrote in a single excerpt of the memoir. “It’s getting onerous to breathe. Oxygen masks drop from the ceiling, and I’m wondering in the event that they dropped as a result of the turbulence shook them unfastened or if it’s one thing else.”
Luckily, based on Wilmer, everybody on board was OK once they landed.