He dodged death when an engine malfunction forced him to crash land his vintage plane near Santa Monica Airport in 2015.

And Harrison Ford wasn’t taking any chances as he gave his helicopter a thorough going over before taking off on a solo flight from the same airport on Sunday.

At one point the iconic Hollywood actor even jumped up onto the roof during the detailed pre-flight checks, an impressive display of physical prowess for a 74-year-old.

Wearing a green bomber jacket over a white shirt and blue jeans, Harrison walked around the front of the chopper eyeing it up through his shades.

The silver-haired star who played Han Solo in seven Star Wars films also hung off the shaft leading to the tail rotor.

But he evidently decided all was well because he was later seen taking off.

The experienced pilot was taking no chances after crash-landing a helicopter in October 1999 while he was practicing emergency landings with a flight instructor.

Meanwhile Harrison, who is married to actress Calista Flockhart, 52, has almost no memory of the crash in his WW2-era training aircraft that left him with a large laceration in his scalp and broken bones in his pelvis and ankle.

The star was reprising his role as Han Solo in Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens at the time but it didn’t stop him promoting the movie.

Harrison also suffered a broken leg and a dislocated ankle in an injury onset for the film at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, UK, in June 2014.

The hydraulic door on his character’s Millennium Falcon was triggered accidentally causing it to fall on the star, crushing him like a ‘blunt-edged guillotine,’ a court in the UK heard in October.

Foodles Production (UK) Ltd, owned by Disney and set up specifically for the making of the film, was fined a total of $2million after admitting two counts of breaching its health and safety duties in relation to the incident.

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