FAA looking after pilot drops turkeys on Arkansas festival

An airplane passes over the Yellville Turkey Trot in Yellville, Ark., while someone aboard drops a live turkey to the ground. The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday that it had an investigator at the fair in 2016 and that the pilot complied with the plan to drop turkeys away from a crowded area. Organizers are hoping that a "phantom pilot" won't pass over the town this weekend and drop live turkeys, as has been done for decades. (Jason Ivester /The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP, 2016 File)

An airplane passes over the Yellville Turkey Trot in Yellville, Ark., while someone aboard drops a live turkey to the ground. The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday that it had an investigator at the fair in 2016 and that the pilot complied with the plan to drop turkeys away from a crowded area. Organizers are hoping that a "phantom pilot" won't pass over the town this weekend and drop live turkeys, as has been done for decades. (Jason Ivester /The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP, 2016 File)

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