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Oprah Winfrey's Christmas vacation may not have gone to the birds, after all.
The talk show maven's private plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Santa Barbara Monday, after suffering a cracked windshield. Officials initially blamed the mishap on an errant bird.
The daytime queen and her longtime beau, Stedman Graham, were both onboard the plane, though neither was hurt in the incident.
The incident 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."
While Oprah and Steadman escaped injury, the same apparently couldn't be said for the bird, which was presumed dead on impact.
But to the delight of avian lovers, Ahlman quickly changed his story. "There was no bird involved, but the pilot did tell my captain that he felt it was a fatigue thing with the glass," he said later to the Santa Barbara News-Press. (For those literalists, "fatigue" in this case meant the windshield showed signs of wear and tear, not sleepiness.)
The eastern-bound plane will remain grounded while the windshield is fixed.
In the meantime, Winfrey will likely repair 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.
(Originally published Dec. 27, 2005 at 8:45 a.m.)
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