Twenty five live turkeys died of freefall in Ohio on thaksgiving day

An advertising stunt dreamed up by a local Cincinnati radio station went terribly wrong when twenty live turkeys plummeted to their deaths after being dropped out of a helicopter under the misguided assumption that they would all just fly away. An eyewitness said he saw the turkeys fell to the ground like sacks of cement. The radio station manager took full responsibility for the chaos that had happened. He also said 'as God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.'

I've researched some facts in the internet and i found out that Wild turkeys can actually fly. Their wings are made for short bursts of flight--not for flying long distances. But they do travel from feeding site to feeding site by flying! They can fly up to 50 miles per hour which is very fast for such large birds.