Many a New Yorker’s deep-seated and very specific air-travel related fear—a bird flying into the engine after takeoff, causing an emergency landing a la Sully—just manifested into reality for not just one, but a high-profile CNN contributor and a Fox News contributor, both of whom lived to Tweet another day.
CNN Chief Business Correspondent Ali Velshi was apparently traveling on the same flight as serial entrepreneur, and Fox News, BusinessWeek, and Huffington Post contributor Grant Cardone on today’s Delta Flight 1063 out of JFK when a bird smashed into one of the engines shortly after takeoff, which, according to Velshi, filled the cabin with smoke.
