Oprah Jet Mishap Changes Course

Officials now say Oprah's jet was forced to return to a Santa Barbara airport because of wear and tear, and not a collision with a bird.

"There was no bird involved, but the pilot did tell my captain that he felt it was a fatigue thing with the glass," Battalion Chief John Ahlman, a Santa Barbara City Fire Department spokesman, said Tuesday.

Ahlman had earlier attributed the damage to a bird.

Winfrey, host of "The Oprah Winfrey Show," and her boyfriend, Stedman Graham, weren't hurt in Monday's incident, which occurred just after the jet had taken off from Santa Barbara Municipal Airport.

The 51-year-old talk-show host bought a mansion in the hills of Montecito five years ago.