Alaskan Woman Drops Thanksgiving Turkeys from Plane in an Effort to Feed Neighbors Who Live ‘Off...

Residents living in Skwentna and West Susitna Valley, Alaska, were delivered their Thanksgiving dinner in a very unusual way. It’s a common belief that turkeys can’t fly, but it seems they do — at least in Alaska.

For the last three years, local pilot Esther Sanderlin has been dropping what the local news refers to as “turkey bombs” near her fellow Alaskan neighbors who live off the road system. After hearing one of her newest neighbors talk about how squirrel meat would be their protein of choice for Thanksgiving dinner a new personal mission was ignited.

“I was visiting our newest neighbor and they were talking about splitting a squirrel three ways for dinner, and how that didn’t really go very far,” Sanderlin told Alaska's NBC affiliate KTUU on Monday, Nov. 25. “And I just had a thought at that moment, ‘You know what, I’m going to airdrop them a turkey for Thanksgiving,' because I recently rebuilt my first airplane with my dad and so I can do that really easily."