"A drone crashed into a passenger plane
last week in Canada, renewing safety concerns about unmanned aircraft
and raising questions about how best to enforce regulations now that
drones are becoming more and more commonplace.
The drone hit a plane carrying six passengers and two crew members en route to an airport in Quebec on Thursday.
'This
should not have happened,' Canada’s minister of transport, Marc
Garneau, said at a news conference on Sunday. 'That drone should not
have been there.'
Nobody
was hurt, but the incident could have caused 'catastrophic' damage had
it hit an engine or incapacitated the pilot, Mr. Garneau said.
Researchers at Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering demonstrated in 2015 that an eight-pound quadcopter drone could rip apart a nine-foot-diameter engine in less than 1/200th of a second."
Too high and too close to an airport. Another idiot.
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