Two people in a small airplane emerged from a freak accident Saturday evening unscathed -- after two elk ran into their plane just as it was landing on an Oregon Coast airstrip.

Pilot Todd Rudberg, 49, had just touched down at the Nehalem Bay State Park airstrip on the southern edge of Manzanita at 5:14 p.m. Saturday.

gbflyer wrote:We stayed in Manzanita for a couple of months. Amazing number of elk around. They even go out into the surf.

NBSP is awesome. Hope this doesn't spur some member of the fun police to raise hell about the airstrip.