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Air France plane narrowly avoids collision with drone

patrick3027
By patrick3027
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40 minutes ago, Kyle86GT said:

Your right it could lead to a hell of an engine failure but, I'm not going to say a drone strike to an aircraft is going to down it. I've seen fan blades knurl under just from stress and have even seen  where the shaft let out in flight (Spent some time doing blood and urine testing for that one), always ended up with an engine change and continuing flight on one less motor. 

 

Planes engines as you know have shelled out in the past but, today they are designed around that failure and can continue on if something were to happen. I'm just speaking in general here but, I personally don't see drones as a major threat to modern day aircraft. 

I thought modern engines while designed to at least partially cope with something such as a bird strike, still get damaged enough that they stop working. And drones are a bit harder than birds.

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4 hours ago, ManWithBeard1990 said:

You could. You shouldn't.

And I agree. I just wanted to bring up that with readily available hobby parts, height restrictions are quite meaningless.

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Flying a drone over 295ft is prohibited in Canada. Frankly, I can't see why anyone would need to fly any higher than that. 

 

I have a DJI Phantom 3 Advanced and 295ft is plenty of altitude.

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