On late Saturday morning, a bird flew out of the cold Detroit sky, across an airfield and into the cockpit of a jetliner bound south for Atlanta. Seated close behind the cockpit door, Perry imagined what might happen if the bird flapped into an instrument panel. Buonassissi thinks the bird, like everyone on the flight, made it halfway to Georgia before the plane turned back. Perry stayed in his seat and watched a somewhat disgruntled-looking pilot watch the workers search for the bird. In the towel was a very small bird that had managed to ground a 55-tonne flying machine.

Source: National Post January 01, 2018 20:48 UTC