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ConocoPhillips Strikes Ducks on the Way to Oil

What: ConocoPhillips (new) Boeing 737-700 en route from Anchorage to Deadhorse
Where: emergency landing in Fairbanks
When: Thursday May 28
Who: 135 oilfield workers
Why: The plane flew into a cloud of fifty (or thereabouts) ducks, cracking the 3 ply windshield, denting the engine cowling and forcing an emergency landing in Fairbanks.

George’s Point of View

There is no connection between ducks (n.) and duck (v.) (I checked.)

And then I was going to write something about airline insurance companies using ducks as mascots–but there’s already an insurance duck.

So let’s just hope the ducks that survive figure out how to get out of the way next time–and be glad that this time, no unfeathered passengers were hurt.

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