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A commercial airliner narrowly missed colliding midair with a drone at 2,700 feet as it neared New York's LaGuardia Airport Friday morning, just hours after a string of incidents involving lasers pointed at planes, according to federal officials.
The pilot reportedly had to swerve upward over Brooklyn's Prospect Park in order to avoid the drone as the plane neared the airport. The incident followed several earlier instances of pilots reporting they had lasers pointed at them near New York airports.
originally posted by: Legman
There are two different sort of drones . A quad copter type that us Hobbyists build that can go about 500 feet or so. Then there are UAVs which the media erroneously calls drones used by the military. They can go roughly 50k feet for 36 hours at a time. Small aircraft really.
originally posted by: Answer
We're being set up by the media to support a ban on civilian quadcopters. It's only a matter of time.
The incidents around the white house, the talks about privacy, and now they're being painted as a threat to commercial aircraft.
It won't be long before the usual suspects are pushing for bans and/or strict regulation. Mark my words.
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
originally posted by: Answer
We're being set up by the media to support a ban on civilian quadcopters. It's only a matter of time.
The incidents around the white house, the talks about privacy, and now they're being painted as a threat to commercial aircraft.
It won't be long before the usual suspects are pushing for bans and/or strict regulation. Mark my words.
Well that ruins my plans for a .50 mounted on a quad for home protection.....damnit!