The CAA gave the incident an A rating , which is described as a “ serious risk of hit . ” The small helicopter - comparable radio-controlled aircraft purportedly appeared 700 feet above the tarmac as the plane was touching down . However , investigators were never able to track down the airborne perp .
You ’d think that a hulky Airbus passenger planing machine would just plow flop through a commercial drone no problem . You ’d be half right . It would surely destroy anything in its path , but it ’s what happens to the shrapnel of the collision that ’s the real threat . We spoke with an aircraft sustainment analystlast yr about the possible dangers of a droning / carpenter’s plane collision .
The best grammatical case scenario is that if the aircraft comes into contact with a dawdler at cruise amphetamine and no part are ingested in to the engine / railway locomotive , modest to major damage is done to the fuselage , emergency landing procedures are implemented , and the planer lands safely .
Middle of the road : engine is damaged in - flight of stairs , that engine is shut down , and since the 747 has quad redundancy there are still 3 engine with which the aircraft can use to safely land ( with potential damage to the airframe ) .
bad font — and this would take all the unfit juju out there in the cosmos : Drone ingested into locomotive . Blades from railway locomotive shoot out and destruct other engine on same wing and also cuts through fuel supplying line in the wing as well as hydraulic supplying line . There are procedure to cut fuel supplying , but hydraulic power is call for to get these valves to close . Even with a systemic failure like this , the woodworking plane could still land safely .
Luckily , passenger plane engine have several redundance and safety lineament to make them even drone on archetype proof .
Takeoffs and landing place are the most vulnerable section of any flight , relying on everything working together perfectly . cast off a wrench in the oeuvre and on some unlucky day , the whole matter could fall apart . Drone dummies , like this soul , are the people who have regulators like the FAA in cold sweats and are ultimately suffer all of the reasonable - disposed hobbyist around the world . [ BBC News ]
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