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Airprox Board Says Police Drone and Military Jet had 'Near-Miss'

posted by janrinok on Thursday May 31 2018, @02:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the government-v-government dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

A police drone had a "near-miss" with a fighter jet travelling at 520mph (836km/h), a report has revealed.

The drone's operator "honestly believed" the two would collide in mid-air, according to [PDF] the UK Airprox Board. It said the risk of a crash above Throwleigh, Devon, was "high" but the officer had lowered the drone quickly. Devon and Cornwall Police said it had notified Airprox, which was "content that there was no blame nor any lessons to be learned".

The drone was flying at an altitude of about 300ft (90m) on 16 January, according to the report. "The jet came into view from right to left and seemed to pass by the drone at the same altitude; it looked like the jet was within 200m laterally of the drone. Once the jet was in view it started banking to the right and [the operator] honestly believed it was going to collide with the drone."

"The jet continued and was followed a few seconds later by a second jet."

The F-15 pilot, who was flying at an altitude of 500ft (152m), could not see the drone, the report added. The board said the case had prompted discussions about whether the service which helps the military plan routes through UK airspace should incorporate information from other sources.

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  • (Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Thursday May 31 2018, @08:12PM (1 child)

    by Osamabobama (5842) on Thursday May 31 2018, @08:12PM (#686910)

    You may be interested in a bit of trivia; metric flight levels [wikipedia.org] are used in ...

    ... Mongolia, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and 6,000 m or below in Turkmenistan (where feet is used for FL210 and above). Flight levels are read as e.g. "flight level 7,500 metres"

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday June 01 2018, @12:10PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Friday June 01 2018, @12:10PM (#687199) Homepage
    Thanks for the link. The top paragraph, noting the capitulation of some pretty large and influentual countries from metric to how-long's-the-king's-nose imperial units (or wahtever it was based on - his dick length?) further perturbed me. The ex-Soviet, and then Warsaw, Pact countries should have remained modern and metric, and then pulled the EU onto their side. But no, what the US and UK says goes, no matter how illogical their king's dick is.
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