An escaped horse had to be rescued by firefighters after getting stuck in a bog on the North York Moors. Hovis was found trapped near Cod Beck Reservoir, near Swainby, just after 06:30 BST, having ...

CAPE COD (WWLP) - An international cargo plane that took off from JFK in New York dumped thousands of gallons of fuel over the water in eastern Massachusetts during an emergency landing last week.

An international cargo plane on Thursday dumped 6,000 gallons of fuel over the Cape and Islands during an emergency return to New York after a horse aboard the jet escaped its stall.

According to a report in capeandIslands.org, which is the local NPR station out there, the pilot dumped 6,000 gallons of fuel after a horse on board escaped its stall and forced an emergency landing.

The horse, a 10-year-old stallion named Bullwinkle, was one of only 200 Banker horses, a breed on the Outer Banks in North Carolina that descended from horses brought over by Spanish explorers.