Initially I thought this article was Sky just being their usual sensationalist selves, but I did actually find the source report, and that is actually what the pilot said !
Drone flown 'deliberately' towards light aircraft
The pilot had "no doubt that it was being deliberately flown under the flight path in an attempt to collide with an aircraft".
This is a new and worrying variation on a theme there - a pilot actually convinced that a UAV was flown deliberately at his craft with the intention of colliding with it :/
Personally I think that's a pilot inferring things he can't possibly know from only the briefest near-contact sighting, but I doubt the general public reading it will have any reason to question his account...
Obviously the drone pilot was 100% at fault in this one - it was at 350 ft in controlled airspace around London's RAF Northolt, but it's extra-uncomfortable reading to find that the pilot has reported it as intentional, so thought I'd share it here for anyone interested...
Drone flown 'deliberately' towards light aircraft
The pilot had "no doubt that it was being deliberately flown under the flight path in an attempt to collide with an aircraft".
This is a new and worrying variation on a theme there - a pilot actually convinced that a UAV was flown deliberately at his craft with the intention of colliding with it :/
Personally I think that's a pilot inferring things he can't possibly know from only the briefest near-contact sighting, but I doubt the general public reading it will have any reason to question his account...
Obviously the drone pilot was 100% at fault in this one - it was at 350 ft in controlled airspace around London's RAF Northolt, but it's extra-uncomfortable reading to find that the pilot has reported it as intentional, so thought I'd share it here for anyone interested...
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