Actor, Morgan Freeman, couldn’t be more grateful today, just hours after the private plane he was traveling in Saturday (12-4-15) on his way to Texas for a shoot, had to make an emergency landing and ended up crash landing in Tunica, MS. Tunica is about 36 miles from Houston, TX..

Freeman told this to The Wrap regarding his crash:

“I was on my plane on the way to Texas to shoot a segment for The Story of God.

Sometimes things don’t go as planned and a tire blew on take-off which caused other problems. But thanks to my excellent pilot Jimmy Hobson we landed safely without a scratch.

I cannot say the same about my plane. I appreciate the concern and prayers for our safety.”

That was a really close call, and we’re so happy to hear that Morgan Freeman came out of that accident in tip top shape. This isn’t his first brush with death though, remember when he got into that horrific car accident in 2008? That too, happened in his home state of Mississipi. The car he was driving ended up flipping multiple times, leaving him with a paralyzed left hand paralyzed and broken shoulder that he says still causes him a lot of pain.

But through it all, he’s here and he’s working doing what he loves and even continuing to push through his grief after his granddaughter was murdered earlier this year.

Yeah, Freeman is the epitome of what it means to be a true fighter who never quits.