'It's a bird! It's a plane!' In Alaska, it's both as pilot delivers turkeys

A resident named Esther Keim has been flying low and slow in a small plane over rural parts of south-central Alaska, dropping frozen turkeys to those who can't simply run out to the grocery store.

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