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Pilot Claims Drone at Newark Airport Came Within 30 Feet of Aircraft Amid Ground Stop: Report

posted by martyb on Thursday January 24 2019, @03:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the somebody's-gonna-get-killed dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

Fox News reports a claim that Drone at Newark Airport Came Within 30 Feet of Aircraft:

Arriving flights were halted at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on Tuesday when a drone was spotted near a neighboring airport, officials said. And one pilot claims that the drone came as close as 30 feet to his aircraft, according to a new report.

Two airplanes headed to Newark reported seeing a drone around 5 p.m. over Teterboro Airport, a smaller airport located roughly 18 miles northeast of Newark.

The FoxNews report quotes this story at ABC news:

Officials have now resumed operations after a ground stop had been ordered at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey due to drone activity, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

Officials received two reports of a drone seen about 3,500 feet above Teterboro Airport in Bergen County, New Jersey, FAA spokesman Greg Martin told ABC News.

[...] "Missed the drone by about 30 feet off our right wing," one pilot said.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @06:56PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @06:56PM (#791378)

    Many drones are under 100gm (3oz) - much less than a pigeon. Others are over 1.5kg.

    Testing aircraft for bird strike survival involved firing FROZEN chickens at the aircraft.

    Fundamentally, there is a hell of a lot of difference between hitting 4 off 5gm metal motors in 40gm of plastic at 4mph, and a 5kg frozen chicken at 250MPH.

    I am not saying that the drones should not be banned from airports, but about GBP100M worth of business was lost because "someone might have seen a drone".
    It is entirely possible that it was a Police drone - the police do not seem to know where their own drones were at the time of the incident.

    If I was a delayed passenger, I might be tempted to suggest a few policemen should be shot from guns "to encourage the others".

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @04:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @04:44PM (#791853)

    That at least one high profile group of chicken flingers has used frozen poultry in its cannonizations puts this legend's punch line - and thus the legend itself - into the realm of lore, not that of reality.

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/catapoultry/ [snopes.com]