Man Sits Next to a Duck on His Plane, Live Tweets the Whole Thing

Recently, Twitter user Mark Essig was surprised to learn that an emotional support duck would be riding next to him on his flight from Charlotte to Asheville. Here are a few tweets from the adventure…

My seatmate, CLT➡️AVL, is this handsome duck named Daniel. His gentle quacking eases the sadness of leaving #SFA16. pic.twitter.com/iDKWCceAFi

— Mark Essig (@mark_essig) October 16, 2016

Daniel, the duck on my flight, likes to look at the clouds. pic.twitter.com/YiOjCvZ0NO

— Mark Essig (@mark_essig) October 16, 2016

Here is a 3-second video of Daniel the emotional support duck. His human says, 'and wagging? That's happy.' pic.twitter.com/WElW9d827o

— Mark Essig (@mark_essig) October 17, 2016

Fans of Daniel the #EmotionalSupportDuck should be aware that pigs are cool too. I wrote a book about them: https://t.co/jp1vHOtEQu pic.twitter.com/uSMb1yzPkz

— Mark Essig (@mark_essig) October 17, 2016