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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 that s ahead of you reported a drone at the floyd bennett field over there, so you might see that occurring. we re probably higher than he was but we re watching it for it. reporter: aviation.com weighed in saying without a doubt this was a close call. he explains a drone flying within 100 feet of a plane can easily get sucked into an engine or worse. these drone are made with aircraft aluminum similar parts to the aircraft it s about to strike. going into an engine can destroy an engine. going into the cockpit window can injure a pilot or kill a ....
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 field over there. so you might see that. yeah we re probably considerably higher than he was, but we re watching out for it. reporter: bill werner of aviation.com says he said without a doubt this was a close call. 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 parts ....
Don t worry. so how safe is turbulence? incredibly safe. i look at the clip and laugh because it s absurd. the aircraft is made to withstand a tremendous amount of stress. sur buoy lens is like a bump in the road and the plane can handle that and then some. are you white washing it? how many people have died from turbulence? you would have to go back a very long time to find a plane crash that actually was caused just by turbulence itself. it s incredibly rare. aviation safety is in bester wrath all time getting safer and safer. big concern is spilling your coffee. you could die from spilled coffee. phil durner is the web site. aviation.com. pay me big money to get on one of those continue cans. should he live or die? one newspaper says the boston bomber doesn t deserve the death penalty? plus, it s national pet day, ....