Once again, wild turkeys will be dropped from a plane during an annual event in northern Arkansas.
Marion County judge Terry Ott says the live birds will be dropped at Yellville’s Turkey Trot festival Friday and Saturday. The turkeys will not be released directly over attendees.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports the festival has included a turkey drop for more than 50 years.
Mountain View alderman Dana Woods says the turkeys glide to a landing.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford says it’s legal to drop objects from airplanes as long as people aren’t hurt and property isn’t damaged. Lunsford says the FAA doesn’t endorse heaving turkeys out of an aircraft for entertainment, even though FAA regulations don’t specifically exclude live animals as objects.
An FAA investigator will be at the festival this year to observe.
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