British press: A plane with 180 passengers almost collided with a drone flying at a very high altitude
A British Airways passenger plane miraculously avoided a collision with an unmanned aerial vehicle while flying over Kent. The British newspaper The Daily Mail reports this.
According to the publication, the plane with 180 passengers on board was flying from the Greek capital Athens to London. He was supposed to land at London Heathrow Airport. The flight speed was more than 250 miles (about 402 kilometers) per hour.
When the plane was at an altitude of 9,6 thousand feet (about 2,9 thousand meters), flying over the British county of Kent, an unmanned aerial vehicle flew dangerously close to it. According to members of the aircraft's crew, the drone approached the aircraft's wing by almost 1,5 meters.
If an airplane collides with drone if it happened, the consequences could be the most unpredictable. Now the competent authorities will have to determine what kind of drone it was and how it ended up at such a high altitude.
It is noteworthy that, as the publication writes, the drone was flying at an altitude many times higher than the maximum permitted for such aircraft. If the operator drone If detected by law enforcement agencies, he may face criminal liability with imprisonment for up to five years.
Note that collisions with various objects in the sky sometimes cause plane crashes. In this situation, tragic consequences were avoided only by luck.
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