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  • Greg Nuspel August 30, 2015 at 6:50am

    But yet it happens http://defensetech.org/2012/03/21/pics-of-the-day-the-c-130-that-co...

  • LightWare - Laser Developer August 30, 2015 at 6:04am
    @Scott, I'm with you on that. I crunched the numbers and if you take every drone in the USA into the air and hover them at 2500 feet for ten years, the chance of one of them being hit by a manned aircraft is still vanishingly small!
  • Scott W August 30, 2015 at 5:34am

    @ Laser, I think a falling piece of ice from another aircraft above, is just as likely as a random drone fly-away!

    @ Austin, I think you mean, what ALLEGED idiot is ALLEGEDLY flying at 2500ft?  Over on this continent we're innocent until PROVEN guilty.  (That's the idea, anyway)

  • Austin Laws August 30, 2015 at 3:32am

    Well it had to happen sometime. What idiot is flying at 2500ft. They should be put in prison for doing this. They are ruining a growing industry and more importantly putting peoples lives at risk!

  • LightWare - Laser Developer August 29, 2015 at 11:37pm
    We've all read the complaints that some drones, especially new ones that haven't been properly setup, fly out of control and usually crash somewhere nearby. I was wondering if anyone has had an instance of a drone flying straight up and out of view? If this is possible then a climbing drone or a falling drone with flat batteries might cross the 2500 foot level. Perhaps people won't want to incriminate themselves but it might be in all our interests to know if this has ever happened.
  • Thomas Stanley-Jones August 29, 2015 at 7:43pm

    This is actually a great first drone strike.  Nobody died!  Some pilots refer to that as just a good landing :-)  Not a good situation, but the damage is really piddly in the grand scheme of things.  Definitely not enough to bring an airliner down unless it was stupidly bad timing and a whole bunch of other things went wrong too.  If this is all drone strikes ever amount to, great!

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    DavidJames August 29, 2015 at 4:53pm

    Whatever it was, it looks like it would have had to come through the prop to make that strike on the leading edge of the elevator.

  • Gary McCray August 29, 2015 at 1:43pm

    Hi Greg,

    I'm not saying that the idiot UAV pilots can't do it, just very few of them do and the normal result is now that they kiss their $1000.00+ investment good bye very quickly.

    I wasn't saying it was impossible and certainly if you have some idiot really working at it they can get there.

    All I was saying is that statistically this is a tiny number of people a tiny percentage of the time, yet the so called plane sightings are commonly at these extremely unlikely altitudes.

    And that is what is seriously unlikely.

    I believe I am talking about an astronomically statistically unlikelihood here.

    Impossible - no, incredibly unlikely - yes.

    Sort of like the Mission Impossible stunts.

    Possibly on a par with spontaneous dissociation of all the atoms on earth - OK maybe not quite that unlikely.

    Best,

    Gary

  • Greg Nuspel August 29, 2015 at 1:31pm

    Gary I do agree with you about the number spotted being way over the top.

  • Greg Nuspel August 29, 2015 at 1:31pm

    Gary the chances this being a commercial drone would be extremely small. I would say a FPV flyer out trying to push the envelop. Even with a DJI 2500ft isn't hard to do. Quick search on YouTube will net you plenty of them above the clouds. After all it knows the way home at least that what those fools that do this rely on. Just like this guy https://youtu.be/rIVMLMT5-30

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