Pilot airdrops Thanksgiving turkeys to people living off-grid in Alaska – video

Esther Keim delivers frozen turkeys to people living in remote parts of Alaska, flying low over rural areas of the US state in her small plane. For her Alaska Turkey Bomb programme, she flies about 100 miles north from her base in Wasilla as far as the foothills of Denali, North America's tallest mountain. Sometimes she needs to enlist the help of a 'turkey dropper' to actually eject the frozen poultry from the plane. At other times, she's on turkey duty while her friend Heidi Hastings pilots the plane.

Keim contacts families on social media to let them know she will be coming with the turkeys, then buzzes the house with the plane to let them know to come outside. All but two turkeys had been delivered by Tuesday, with delivery plans for the last two birds thwarted by Alaska's unpredictable weather. She makes an average of 30-40 turkey deliveries each year