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Oprah's Fowl Flight By Gina Serpe
1 hour, 8 minutes ago
Oprah Winfrey's Christmas may not have gone to the birds, but the day after sure did.
The talk show maven's private plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Santa Barbara Monday, after a collision with a bird cracked the windshield.
The daytime queen and her longtime beau, Stedman Graham, were both onboard the plane, though neither was hurt in the incident. The same can't be said for the bird.
The midair collision occurred around 12:30 p.m., shortly after Winfrey's Gulfstream jet had taken off from Santa Barbara Municipal Airport, according to Santa Barbara Fire Department spokesman John Ahlman. The plane quickly returned to the city airport.
"This is not a totally unusual thing," Ahlman said. "We see these things pretty frequently."
The eastern-bound plane will remain grounded while the windshield is repaired.
In the meantime, Winfrey will likely return to her 42-acre seaside mansion in nearby Montecito, where she spent her holiday.
No word on where exactly the ill-fated flight was headed. Chicago's a good guess, though Winfrey has spent considerable time in the Big Apple recently.
The TV titan turned a long-overdue chat with David Letterman into a media event, stopping by the late-night host's couch for the first time in 16 years on Dec. 1.
She was there promoting her latest multimillion-dollar business venture, her new Broadway musical The Color Purple, based on the Alice Walker novel, which had its opening the same night.
Following the interview, Letterman escorted his guest across the street to the show's premiere.
The episode drew in 13.5 million viewers, marking the Late Show's biggest audience in more than a decade, and making it the fourth most watched episode ever.
New episodes of The Oprah Winfrey Show, meanwhile, hit airwaves next month.
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