Near miss with airliner in L.A.

[Tony Cowan]

And the story also specifically says the drone passed 200 feet over the aircraft (while 14 miles out at 5000 feet). How can they know this?
smh...

Being discussed here:
Lufthansa jet and drone nearly collide near LAX

Well if there is a drone that is 14miles out at 5000 feet. That is the drone I would like to have.


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[TacAir42]

Easy, speck appears thru windscreen, speck doesn't move.....uh oh.

Plus no smart pilot wears polarized sunglasses. So any shine or glint from miles away is easy to catch. Plus you can't see instrument screens with polarized glasses. Ever try to pump gas and read the screen on the pump with polarized sunglasses?

Can't imagine a pilot fibbing to ATC, scrambling LAPD/LASO, spooling up a chopper to investigate and filing a false written report.

When there is an agenda...there is a way.

 

[WetDog]

How many people here think a drone, any drone, is going to survive a 200 foot near miss with something 200 feet long with 8 foot diameter turbofans? The vortex these things throw will flip a real helicopter, much less a UAV. They should be looking for pieces-parts, not an intact craft.

 

[exit 4]

I'd like to know how much time they had to see and recognize what they saw. At 200 mph focusing on landing, a 1.5 foot white object with big red stripes(stated facetiously), 200 feet above the plane. Think about how small your drone looks at 200 feet in the air. This is B.S. No way they could tell it was anything.

 

[Pluto88888]

More BS stories from pilots 5,000ft seriously they do cry like babies.

 

[Trackman1]

It's not the pilot reporting something. That's likely normal.

But if it could possibly be a drone, the media runs with it.

 

[ianwood]

Thread closed. This is posted in the wrong section. It has no relevance to the P3. And there is already a thread on the same topic in the News section: Lufthansa jet and drone nearly collide near LAX