Lufthansa Reports Near-Miss W/ Drone at LAX
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Lufthansa Reports Near-Miss W/ Drone at LAX
Lufthansa Reports Near-Miss With Drone Over Los Angeles
The pilot of a Lufthansa passenger jumbo jet reported a drone aircraft nearly collided with the airliner on Friday on its landing approach to Los Angeles International Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
The close encounter between the wide-body, four-engine Airbus A380 and the drone occurred at about 1:30 p.m. at an altitude of 5,000 feet (152 meters) as the unmanned aircraft passed about 200 feet (61 meters) over the Lufthansa flight 14 miles (22.5 km) east of the airport, the FAA said.
No evasive action was taken by the airline crew, and the plane, Lufthansa Flight 456, safely made its landing minutes later without further incident, according to FAA spokesman Ian Gregor.
The close encounter between the wide-body, four-engine Airbus A380 and the drone occurred at about 1:30 p.m. at an altitude of 5,000 feet (152 meters) as the unmanned aircraft passed about 200 feet (61 meters) over the Lufthansa flight 14 miles (22.5 km) east of the airport, the FAA said.
No evasive action was taken by the airline crew, and the plane, Lufthansa Flight 456, safely made its landing minutes later without further incident, according to FAA spokesman Ian Gregor.
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Get it right, avoirdupois is for measuring weights not length!
From Wikipedia:
The avoirdupois system is a system of weights (more properly, mass) based on a pound of 16 ounces.
From Wikipedia:
The avoirdupois system is a system of weights (more properly, mass) based on a pound of 16 ounces.
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Metric
Actually first proposed / invented by Bishop John Wilkins, an Englishman, in the 1600s.
The whole World will be metric at some point in the nearish future, most of it already is, so why not just do it now, it makes sense and simplifies measurement? All the really smart people (Scientists and Engineers) have already adopted it, it is just a few stick in the muds that are holding out because of ancient tradition.
Time to move on and embrace the 21st century.
The whole World will be metric at some point in the nearish future, most of it already is, so why not just do it now, it makes sense and simplifies measurement? All the really smart people (Scientists and Engineers) have already adopted it, it is just a few stick in the muds that are holding out because of ancient tradition.
Time to move on and embrace the 21st century.
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Why does aviation continue to use outdated avoirdupois measurements?
So called "logical reasons" can be stated for all the units used, but it does tax the brain somewhat, and causes confusion.
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Los Angeles County had better start deploying these:
https://airbusdefenceandspace.com/ne...cit-intrusion/
https://airbusdefenceandspace.com/ne...cit-intrusion/
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Au contraire, it does.
Please note the original post, specifically the height at which the drone was flying. Easy to confuse imperial and metric isn't it? Maybe the drone pilot thought he was at 152 metres.
Either that or he was French and couldn't understand what ATC were saying.
Please note the original post, specifically the height at which the drone was flying. Easy to confuse imperial and metric isn't it? Maybe the drone pilot thought he was at 152 metres.
Either that or he was French and couldn't understand what ATC were saying.
