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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

A Canadian passenger plane landed safely after it was hit by a drone in the first case of its kind in the country [phys.org], a cabinet minister said Sunday.

With increasing numbers of unmanned aerial devices in the skies, collisions are still rare, but authorities around the world are looking at ways to keep jetliners out of harm's way.

The Canadian incident happened last Thursday when a drone collided with a domestic Skyjet plane approaching Jean-Lesage International Airport in Quebec City, Transport Minister Marc Garneau said in a statement.

Well, don't keep us in suspense! Who won, the locomotive or the bumblebee?

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