But his rendering of Audubon's encounter with billions of now-extinct passenger pigeons flying wingtip-to-wingtip across the Kentucky sky for three whole days is magical.
The safety board said at the time that 12 accidents since 1993 had involved a large aircraft's wingtip hitting another airplane or object on the taxiway.
Their Airbus A320 had just arrived from Atlanta at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida Monday night when a wingtip hit the tail of another plane.