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Harrison Ford is a plane afficionado — he owns a handful of them, which he keeps in a private hangar. Unfortunately, he’s not that great at keeping them in the air when he’s in the pilot seat. On Thursday, he crashed one of his vintage palns as it was taking off from Santa Monica airport, and it wasn’t the first time.

“Just Another Pilot,” a short film produced in 2009, follows Harrison Ford as he steers a small plane from Idaho to Washington and shows just how passionate the actor is about flying. “Up here I don’t think about much except flying,” Ford says from behind the controls. “Everything else just kinda falls away.”

Ford tells the interviewer that he started taking flying lessons in the 1960s as a college student. Even though he couldn’t afford to keep taking the lessons, he kept spending time in planes and was able to get back into the pilot’s seat many years later. Ford eventually bought his own plane and started flying again.

On the trip, the actor explains that part of the reason he loves being a pilot is getting to travel and see the world in an interesting way. “(You) get to see little towns, little airports. Meet the people at those little airports,” Ford says. “Flying low level across this country you get to see not just the great natural beauty and the scope of it but also the history of the country and how it grew up.”

There’s also something simpler that makes the actor love being in the air. “I like to challenge myself,” says Ford. “Always make sure that I don’t overchallenge myself. I’ve had a lot of good people look after me and keep me safe.”

Ford says that he’s been lucky and is grateful for his life and being able to fly as much as he wants. “I have the luxury of being able to fly pretty much uninterrupted, train when I want to, buy an occasional airplane,“ says Ford. “I’m just darn lucky.“