Clarkson’s Farm star Lisa Hogan has revealed she survived a plane crash.
The Irish model and actress, 51, became a household name a few years ago when appearing on her partner Jeremy Clarkson’s programme Clarkson’s Farm.
The couple initially met at a party through mutual friends before getting together in 2017.
Lisa has rarely spoken about her private life since first coming into the spotlight, but she was once a sculptor and shares three children with her ex-husband, Baron Steven Bentinck, a Madrid-based private art collector.
However this week she shared details of a shocking accident she found herself caught up in nearly 30 years ago.
In his weekend newspaper column, Jeremy began by explaining that how between them, the couple had ‘walked away from three plane crashes over the years’.
‘Both mine involved landing gear and were fairly minor but hers was a proper shunt,’ he wrote.
‘She was the only passenger in a Learjet that careered off the end of the runway at Northolt and onto the A40, where it was hit so hard by a van that it split in two.
‘It’s amazing no-one was killed, and if you google the images you’ll see what I mean.’
Sharing the article on Instagram, Lisa then shared an image of the crash and a brief description of what happened.
‘Amazingly the pilots, van drivers and I survived. I took another flight the same day. And landed safely,’ she wrote.
Photos of Lisa’s near-death experience in 1996 show the close call, with debris strewn across the road.
Posting on Reddit, one fan wrote of the crash: ‘That sounds terrifying, enough to put anyone off flying.’
A then 25-year-old Lisa had been travelling from Palma in Spain to London for a film role in the John Cleese film Fierce Creatures, the sequel to A Fish Called Wanda.
At the time she was taken to Hillingdon Hospital and treated for shock and cuts and bruises, including an injury to her leg.
She left the hospital later in the afternoon and was ‘basically OK’, according to a film company spokeswoman.
The Irish Times reported that both the pilot and copilot, who suffered severe cuts, were also taken to hospital, while the van driver escaped with cuts and bruises after being cut free from the wreckage.
Speaking to the publication David Early, the pilot of a hospital helicopter from nearby Beckenham Hospital, spoke about being one of the first on the scene.
‘How on earth a plane that size didn’t cause more damage I don’t know. If it had landed six feet either way then the passenger in the plane would have been killed or even the pilots,’ he said.
‘It was a mess when I arrived and I think that everyone involved was extremely lucky.’
Last year Lisa recalled details of the crash to the Irish Independent, saying that after the plane took off ‘everything was fine for a while’.
A decision to sit where she wanted – rather than moving seats as advised by the captain – also saved her life.
‘I insisted on sitting where I was, which was just as well because that was the area where the van came through when we crashed and I would have been killed instantly,’ she said.
After the crash she quickly booked another flight and returned to Majorca just a few hours later.
She later told the Air Accidents Investigation Branch that the two Spanish pilots did not appear to know where RAF Northolt’s airfield was and began fighting over the controls.
‘We were going round and round for ages and then they started arguing. The co-pilot tried to do something, but the pilot smashed his hands off the controls and then we crashed,’ she said.
Lisa also said she felt their approach was too steep and that the plane was travelling too fast.
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