A drone came within five feet of the right wing of an aircraft travelling at 205 mph with 180 passengers onboard.
The drone came within five feet of the right wing of the aircraft that was travelling at 205 miles an hour and with 180 passengers onboard.A British Airways flight came ‘dangerously close’ to a drone when flying at 9,600 feet over Kent. The flight, carrying 180 passengers onboard, was on its way to London’s Heathrow Airport when an illegally flown drone came within five feet of its wing, multiple British outlets reported. or food parcels, are popular aviation toys.
The BA flight— an Airbus A321— was flying into the UK from Athens, Greece, at speeds of 250 miles an hour. The aircraft was flying about six miles south of Sevenoaks as part of the holding stack before joining the final flight path into Heathrow Airport. In the report, the pilots estimated that the drone flew about five feet from the plane’s wing and about 30 feet from the cockpit. The pilots rated the risk of collision as high.
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