Passenger Plane Nearly Collides With Drone At 16,000 Feet

A drone flying at 16,000 feet seems to be more than 40 times higher than the legal limit (400 feet) for unmanned aerial vehicles. Nevertheless, a passenger plane nearly collided with a drone at 16,000 feet.

According to Business Insider, which cited a report by the UK Airprox Board, an Easyjet-operated Airbus A320 was traveling from Gatwick Airport in the UK to Rhodes in Greece when a "unidentified flying object" at 16,000 feet just missed the commercial aircraft by a few feet.

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