New UK near miss [emoji26]

[TioRi]

Packed passenger plane nearly hits drone at Doncaster Airport

I hope the Drone Pilot gets charged

 

[suprPHREAK]

15,500 ft, at 380mph??

I'm all for chasing down bad drone pilots and such, but I'm not sure I could tell a small drone from anything else at 380mph! I'm betting this wasn't a drone, maybe one of those elusive plastic bags as reported by the FAA study...

 

[Spark 317]

The plane already has a "Black Box" collecting data, seems like a high speed dash camera would help in identifying these reports.

I know some planes have cameras for the passengers to view the aircraft during flight.

 

[TioRi]

Maybe drones need to have a permanent altitude limit built in. T

 

[Mike01Hu]

Packed passenger plane nearly hits drone at Doncaster Airport

I hope the Drone Pilot gets charged

3 miles high (15840ft/4828m)??? 350+mph (513fps/156m/s)??? Got to be Russian!!! Most if not all drones would find not enough air for the props to bite at that height and communication near impossible with legal kit. Now, a swan or a model aircraft with jet engines could give the pilot a nasty surprise! Let's have more accuracy in reporting with firm evidence and stop blaming anything unexplained on drone pilots who are easy meat for some ignorant journalists!

 

[lmel2005]

I doubt there's a consumer drone, with a battery capable of this height and return.

 

[Koala Tails]

I hear that unfortunately there is no pictures of this “drone”.
The terminology seems to have changed, back in the 1970s an unidentifiable flying object was reported as a UFO (possibly aliens), now it called a drone!

 

[RPL]

The plane already has a "Black Box" collecting data, seems like a high speed dash camera would help in identifying these reports.

I know some planes have cameras for the passengers to view the aircraft during flight.

You would need a camera that could record at 600+ frames per second. Otherwise, it would just be a blurry dot that resembled no recognizable shape or accurate size. However, I definitely agree that this would probably be a good idea.