Star Wars door ‘could have killed’ Ford, court hears

Hollywood star Harrison Ford could have been killed by a hydraulic door on a “Star Wars” movie set, a court heard Tuesday, as the Disney-owned production company admitted to safety breaches.
Ford, then aged 71, suffered a broken left leg on the set of the Millennium Falcon spaceship after he was pinned down by the heavy, metal-framed door during filming at Pinewood Studios near London.
The court heard that in the incident on June 12 2014, Ford had been walking backwards through the portal, believing the set was not live and the vertically-sliding door would not close — but it was remotely activated by someone.
The actor had to be airlifted to hospital in Oxford.
“It could have killed somebody. The fact that it didn’t was because an emergency stop was activated,” prosecutor Andrew Marshall told the court in Milton Keynes, a town near London and the film studios.

Source: Arab News