this is "nightline." >> tonight, crash landing. a vintage plane piloted by harrison ford comes down hard on a golf course. you know how to fly? >> the actor famous for playing indiana jones and han solo providing a real-life mis misadventure pulled out of his plane by a golfer. the latest on his condition. a soon to be bride, a father of three, a successful globetrotter. they're all preparing for a mission to mars. this is not a joke. these people really want to go to the red planet. and here's the catch -- if they get the nod, there's no coming back. and six seconds of magic. that is all he needs to astonish millions of followers. with occasional help from stars

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but today harrison ford, the action hero had his own real-life and very dangerous adventure, or perhaps more accurately, misadventure. he crash landed his plane in the middle of a golf course in los angeles. abc's brandi hitt is on the scene tonight. >> reporter: good evening. you can see the wreckage behind me. harrison ford's crumpled plane where it made that crash landing on the golf course. the nose destroyed. emergency crews saying they're surprised the actor survived this crash. tonight he's in fair condition. the pilot of this downed plane, movie icon harrison ford. pulled from the wreckage of his world war ii-era plane alert and consciousafter crash landing in a golf course in southern california. >> at approximately 2:20 p.m. the los angeles fire department received a 911 call of a plane that impacted at pen mature golf course. >> reporter: ford's son tweeting at the hospital, dad is okay battered but okay.

he's every bit the man you would think he is. he's an incredibly strong man. not far from the image in the movies. the larger than life character hot make a habit of death-defying feats of flight like in "indiana jones." >> you know how to fly, don't you? >> no. do you? >> reporter: "six days, seven nights." and han solo flying "the millennium falcon" in star wars. >> the possibility of successfully navigating is approximately -- >> never tell me the odds. >> reporter: today the 72-year-old actor piloting a vintage world war two-era plane with stars on its wings. his trip beginning at santa monica airport. less than two miles from the airport, something goes terribly wrong with the engine. >> immediate return. >> reporter: ford radios in for help. air traffic control clearing a runway. >> clear to land. >> reporter: he tries to turn

back to return to the runway. but the plane can't make it. >> it looks like it was short of the runway. >> he's gliding in! >> reporter: look closely, this is the plane. a nearby resident capturing on cell phone the plane in descent. >> oh, no! >> reporter: disappearing behind the horizon, the plane crashes near the tee of the 8th hole at the pen mature golf course. elaine miller saw it happen. >> i'm assuming there was no engine power. since he appeared to be gliding in with no noise. and we watched as he slowly went down onto the tee box of the hole where we were, about 100 yards away. >> reporter: she ran to the site. >> we got to the plane. there was one man in there. somebody then said at that point, "it's harrison ford." i don't think anybody had any idea, or cared, before that. the goal was just get him out of the plane get him safe and hope that he's okay.

>> reporter: fire department and emergency responders were on the scene shortly after. >> they found a single-engine plane aircraft that had had a medium to high impact on the ground with one male victim approximately 70 years old, who at the time was conscious and breathing. >> reporter: paramedics secured him to a gurney and then rushed ford to the hospital. >> the pilot reported a loss of engine power and was attempting to return to the runway. it appears that he clipped the top of a tree and came to rest on the golf course. >> reporter: amazingly, this isn't the first time ford has crash landed. a helicopter he was in went down in 1999. and the next year he crash landed a plane in nebraska. but ford has been landing planes safely for the nearly 20 years he's been flying telling tmz about it. >> what's one thing to know about flying a plane? >> have a good landing.

>> reporter: perhaps the title of his documentary "just another pilot" says more about the way he sees himself, a guy who simply loves to fly. >> not a bad way to spend the afternoon. >> reporter: a passion he shared with barbara walters in a 2008 interview. >> you fly. you have planes you fly on planes, still. what does flying give you? >> oh, man. a lot. i love the freedom of flight. i love the places you go. i love the people in aviation. the people that i meet in aviation. i love seeing the world from an airplane. i'm in love with flying. >> reporter: the plane he flew today was a 1942 ryan pt-22, an antique manufactured the very same year ford was born. >> to fly these really old airplanes is fairly dangerous.

and you take on a level of risk. >> reporter: risks pilots are trained to deal with. >> it sounds like he did a good job getting the airplane pointed back towards santa monica. but he just didn't have enough altitude to glide all the way to the airport. and so he had these fairways in front of him. he did his best to keep the airplane flying didn't stall it out, and so it looks like he did a really good job under the circumstances. >> reporter: ford is spending tonight at ucla ronald reagan medical center. and according to his publicist is expected to make a full recovery. no word yet on whether he'll return to the cockpit. for "nightline," i'm brandi hitt in los angeles. coming up here on "nightline," mission to mars. regular people, successful professionals, training to go to the red planet. fully aware that if they're picked to go there is no return flight. present. >> meet the mad genius of the internet who needs only six

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we cover all sorts of risk-takers and thrill-seek others this show. tonight you're going to meet people taking it on an entirely new level. they are awe editionuditioning for a trip to mars. even though they've been told in advance, if they're chosen they cannot come back. he's hammish mcdonald. >> reporter: kelly giraudi is training the mission of her life. >> we're suiting up to go on the eva, extra-vehicular activity. >> reporter: the suit the head

gear. even a trip through an air lock. kelly is no astronaut. but she's come here to the rocky plains of remote utah to spend three weeks at the mars society desert research center. >> it's an incredible environment out here. it really feels like mars. >> reporter: it might seem a bit extreme but this florida native hopes it will give her an added edge among thousands of other applicants all vying for a trip to mars. but there is one massive catch. it's a one-way ticket. the audacious idea from a new company called mars 1, which says 200,000 ordinary humans from around the globe applied to leave life on earth behind. like kelly. >> no matter what in my lifetime i'm going to face. >> just 26 years old and newly engaged. stefan gunther, a german pilot

and father of three. >> i want to go there. i'm willing to pay the price. >> reporter: and sue ann. >> i feel like it's my destiny to colonize mars. >> reporter: a tech worker from california. >> i think i would be completely crushed if i found out i didn't make it. >> reporter: the three hopefuls competing to make the cut for the next mars 1 selection round. only 100 potential astronauts will be chosen. and they'll find out any day now. the first launch date is set for 2024. >> i've told so many people about this story. and the reaction that i get almost every time is are you crazy? >> we're already doing this. so accept the new reality. >> reporter: we bet landsdorf, the 38-year-old ceo of mars 1, in his small office outside amsterdam. he and his team of space experts claim they can do what nasa so far has not. >> the humans will leave effort

arriving on mars april 2023. >> reporter: an entrepreneur by trade, he believes mars 1's multi-billion dollar mission can be funded by selling tv rights to the reality show. >> literally everybody on the globe will be watching, just like when neil armstrong and buzz aldrin landed the moon. >> how much of the science is missing? how many more advances are required to be able to make this happen? >> the technology is existing. but of course you can't buy it at walmart. so we're hiring the established aerospace companies from all over the world. but no new inventions are needed to implement our program. >> reporter: but because they don't have the technology for the return journey, a permanent colony will be formed. >> this is what butter would look like on mars or similar to what chicken would look like on mars. all freeze dried. >> reporter: it is an irresistible opportunity for kelly giraudi. >> you get it or you don't.

i equate to it seeing mt. everest for the first time. either you feel a yearning to climb it or you don't. if you don't, i don't know that i could ever explain that to you. >> reporter: as for her wedding planned later this year? kelly is facing the prospect of a very long-distance relationship. >> everyone makes a joke to us, till mars do us part. i couldn't be more in love. do i still see myself going to space in the future? yes, i would go. that's a hard reality. >> reporter: so too is martian cuisine. >> where you really get dicey when is you start opening things like earthworms. or zebra tarantulas. so this is going to be pretty gross. >> reporter: sue ann pien is preparing for her potential launch into space by checking off a bucket list right here on earth. >> so since i found out i was a mars candidate it's kind of changed the entire trajectory of my life. so people who think that mars is a suicide mission i have to say, if you're alive today, you're on a suicide mission. >> reporter: her family is

supportive, feelings not shared by her girlfriend cynthia. >> she's not going to lie about the fact that she doesn't like it. but, you something that would take me away from her. >> reporter: 46-year-old stefan guenther knows his trip to mars would take him away from his wife and three children. >> i always try to tell my kids live your life. don't live the life of others. but i hope they accept it the other way around too. >> reporter: for him, it would be the culmination of his life's dreams. >> actually, if i make it to the rocket, if i make it to the hatch, i'm climbing to the capsule. i had everything i wanted in this life. >> join us in this great adventure. >> reporter: but many are skeptical this mission to mars will ever get off the ground let alone succeed. >> this has the atmosphere of a circus where you have amateurs simply raising their hand volunteering to be the first

person on mars. given the fact that this will be untested technology it's a train tragedy waiting to happen. >> reporter: a recent mit study hypothesized mars 1 astronauts might suffocate within months of touching down on the red planet. mars 1 says the mit study is flawed. that they won't risk human lives until they're confident in the technology. but still -- >> there is no safe mission to mars, it's impossible to eliminate all the risks. >> reporter: these risks won't deter dreamers like kelly, sue ann, and stefan, each hoping they're among the 100 finalists chosen. >> my mars 1 interview with dr. kraft, a little bit nerve-racking -- >> reporter: first they need to pass an evaluation. by mars 1's chief psychiatrist. >> what are the attributes that you're looking for? >> imagine flying to mars in quite a small little spaceship for seven months with three

people. seeing the earth disappear. knowing that you'll never see your friends, never talk to them in real life again. we're looking for people who can do that psychologically. >> reporter: back in utah kelly isn't convinced her interview went well. >> this was more like a pop quiz. how much of minutiae of mars 1 mission plan did you study? i'm anticipating that i didn't make it to the next round. of mars 1. because -- specifically for that reason. >> reporter: the disappointment she fears arrives in her inbox. >> i have the e-mail. dear miss kelly, we regret to inform you that you will not proceed to the third round in mars 1's astronaut selection program. this is not the end of your cream -- >> reporter: she takes the news pretty well. >> i'm already on mars right now. i'm super excited to be still contributing to space settlement. >> reporter: stefan guenther in germany also didn't make the mars 1 cut. now he's intent on setting foot on the moon.

as for sue ann pien -- >> if i read the e-mail and it says that i didn't make it i'm going to be pretty upset. i think -- definitely going to feel like my dreams are dashed. oh my god, i made it i made it aahhh. >>! aahhh, oh my god, i made it! >> i didn't read it what did it say? >> dear miss sue ann, congratulations. you and only 99 other aspiring astronauts around the globe have been invited to round three of the astronaut selection process! one step closer! >> reporter: one small step for sue ann, still a giant leap from reality. but it can't hurt to dream. >> i'm feeling elated. i feel like i'm in a dream. it feels like my dreams are coming true. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm hammish mcdonald in london. >> what do you think? is the mission to mars crazy? or ahead of the curve?

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viral with six-second videos. here's abc's rachel smith. >> reporter: don't blink. or you'll miss the magic. vying magician zach king doesn't need long to impress. his six-second videos have 2.6 million followers asking how does he do that? >> we'll do sometimes just simple jump cuts and i'll freeze and people come over and change my clothes and whatever. >> reporter: invisible string and optical illusions to create the effects, as well as a lot of work by zach and his team. >> usually it's four or five hours just to shoot and edit that video. >> reporter: king has used his tricks to turn a hobby into an empire. collaborating with rappers. and plenty of big brands. his talent even taking him all the way to the red carpet of the oscars. >> one of my favorites that you

did was two beds you jump from one to the other -- >> that's my personal favorite. >> get out, really? >> reporter: we got a behind the scenes look at what goes into the making of these videos. >> the concept of this was is going to be taking this angry bird, put it on the branch i'll throw it on the mark and it will become a red sweater. >> cool. >> reporter: sometimes the stunts really are as dangerous as they seem. >> i did one where i fell off the roof. it was the most difficult, it was one of those tile roofs where they could slide. >> living on the edge. >> do not try at home. >> reporter: for king the chance to make a little magic is worth the risk. >> inspiring other people. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm rachel smith in la mirada california. >> thank you for watching our significantly longer than six-second show tonight. we appreciate that. "world news now" is coming up soon with overnight breaking news. tune into "gma" first thing in the morning. as always we're online 24/7 at abcnews.com. thanks again for watching and good night.

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