"Drone", jetliner nearly collide

[poostik]

"Drone", jetliner nearly collide

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/09/travel/un ... ?hpt=hp_t1


Ugh. The only thing we have going for us is that this doesn't sound like it was a copter. The whole "drone" association is not making things any better.

 

[kydan]

Yeah I just saw that on CNN. Doh!

 

[Al_M]

This story broke on CNN as "BreakingNews" a US Air Commuter jet at 2300 Ft came in close contact head on with a fixed wing camouflage painted fixed wing unmanned aircraft, or as CNN described it generically as a Drone. This apparently happened in March and is just now being announced. It is obviously much different than a DJI Phantom or even their larger pro photog UAV's. But CNN just spouted a drone almost collided with a commercial airliner. They then called for laws to deal with drones. Not a great thing. Some idiot with a lot of resources and no brains or just an obvious criminally reckless attitude is set to give anything called a drone a bad name.

 

[Elginet]

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/com ... aa-n101906

Here's the NBC National version. The airspace around Tallahassee Regional at 5 mmiles NE puts it right at the edge of the control zone which goes from 4100ft. to the surface. Outside that area the floor is 1400ft. If this was a drone at 2300ft. by the airport someone deserves to be in deep sht. I'd seriously question the pilot's ability at 160kts to identify something the size of a large seagull while on an approach.

That said, we have to know we're under a microscope right now, for really no reason other than someone's paranoia in politics.

 

[AerialPhotos.photos]

It was not a quad, I quote, "In the speech, which has been posted to YouTube, Williams said that the aircraft was a small, fixed-wing airplane with “a camouflage paint job.”

http://arstechnica.com/information-...airliner-nearly-struck-by-drone-over-florida/

 

[Clipper707]

Does it make a difference that it wasn't a quad? The news will say "drone" and the public will hear "drone." Drones can be multirotor and they can be fixed-wing.

 

[darwin-t]

A similar story is a headline near the top on the Drudge Report - a site that gets over 26 million hits per day.....

http://news.yahoo.com/u-passenger-j...39--sector.html;_ylt=AwrBEiEtU21TpyYATY3QtDMD

 

[Xrover]

Pilot and simulation both describe it as an airplane resembling a Camo color F-4 Phantom Jet

 

[lyonaerials]

UGH! These "journalists" are irritating. Look at this one, they show a Phantom even though the article states that it was camouflaged fixed wing. Ridiculous

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/airliner-collided-drone-fla-airport-faa-article-1.1786690

 

[GMANNZ]

Got to love that US sensationalised newz .... :roll:

 

[BZNCREW]

Just lovely. Pilot describes an F-4 Phantom and lazy journalist google Phantom and post the first image they find.

Just what our hobby needs. More yellow journalism.

 

[BZNCREW]

Drone sounds scarier than model airplane and sells more papers.

THIS is the "drone" that was spotted.

 

[OI Photography]

Here's a good alternative perspective on the incident that points out how the incident may not be exactly what's being reported: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/someth ... ecommended