Jfk Tower News Today

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Lots of questions here. lets get to pete munteen tracking this for us. what happened? >> reporter: the good news is the disaster was avoided, but really only with second to spare. kind of insult to injury here, kate. the quick action of the air traffic controller and the jfk tower stopped this from happening. also the quick reaction by a delta crew on board a 737. that is the animation from flight radar 24. its a little bit sped up and not to scale, but it gives a good idea of what happened here...

This time by a separate airliner delta flight 407 prepares to land at jfk airport, with 154 people on board. when the pilot spots a drone on the southwest side of the plane, just about 100 feet below. the pilot immediately contacts air traffic control. >> did you by any chance get the color or type? >> no it is not close enough to be able to tell. >> reporter: then jfk tower warned other pilots of the possible danger flying around them. >> jetblue, use caution on arrival, the one thats ahead of ...

With 154 people on board. when the pilot spots a drone on the southwest side of the plane, just about 100 feet below. the pilot immediately contacts air traffic control. >> did you get the color or type? >> no i was not close enough to be able to tell. >> reporter: jfk tower warned other pilots of the possible danger flying around them. >> use caution, the one thats ahead of you reported a drone at the floyd bennett field over there, so you might see that occurring. >> were probably higher than ...

>> then, jfk tower warned other pilots of the possible danger flying around them. >> jetblue 943, use caution on arrival. the one ahead of you reported a drone at floyd bennett field. >> yeah, were watching out for it. >> durner of nyc.com weighed in. he said a drone flying within 100 feet of a plane can easily get sucked into an engine or worse. >> these drones are made with aircraft aluminum, similar to the aircraft it is about to strike. going into an engine can destroy an engine or going int...

>> yeah, about a mile back there was a drone flying just on the southwest side of this abandoned airport here. >> what altitude did you say that was? >> i would say probably about 100 feet below us, just off right wing. >> reporter: dale ta flight prepares to land with 154 people on board. the jet, just 1700 feet above the ground when the pilot spots a drone on the southwest side of the plane just about 100 feet below. >> did you, by any chance, get the color or type? >> no, i was not close enou...

Commercial airline in the skies above new york city. around the 2:30 friday afternoon, jetblue flight 1834 reports seeing an unmanned aircraft on approach to jfk. less than three hours later, a second encounter with a drone. this time by a separate airliner. delta flight 407 prepares to land at jfk airport, with 154 people onboard. when the pilot spots a drone on the southwest side of the plane just about 100 feet below. the pilot immediately contacts air traffic control. >> did you by any chanc...

Airliner. delta flight 407 prepares to land at jfk airport, with 154 people onboard. when the pilot spots a drone on the southwest side of the plane, just about a hundred feet below. the pilot immediately contacts air traffic control. >> did you by any chance get the color or type? >> no i was not close enough to be able to tell. >> then jfk tower warned other pilots of the possible danger flying around them. >> jetblue, use caution, the one ahead of you reported a drone at the floyd bennett fie...

Happens a lot more frequently than we would care to believe. the latest incident happening at jfk during the planes most critical phase of landing. >> yeah, about a mile back there was a drone flying just on the southwest side of this abandoned airport here. >> what altitude would you say that was? >> i would say probably about 100 feet below us, jut the off to the right wing. >> jfk airport plane was planning to land with 149 people on board when the pilot spots a drone on southwest side of the...

Because it is a matter of public perception. the image it creates particularly at a tower like the jfk tower. i could understand the outrage. however, from a perspective of the person who deals in the air traffic control system all the time and from my experiences in the faa, this safety factor in this particular instance is completely blown out of proportion. these kids are not taking over. it was a repeat of a clearance to take off and flight such and such contact departure under very, very cl...