Pelican collision that killed five in Oklahoma getting new look

 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 28, 2009

WASHINGTON — For the five men who took off from a small Oklahoma City -area airport aboard a business jet that ran into a large bird, there was no miracle river landing.

The twin-engine Cessna Citation 500 had climbed to 3,100 feet and was passing over a corner of Oklahoma City’s Lake Overholser on March 4, 2008, when it collided with a white pelican, one of North America ’s largest bird speci...


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