1 hour ago A JetBlue Airways aviator reported striking a drone portion connected attack to John F Kennedy International Airport successful New York, officials said.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the craft landed safely and a post-flight inspection recovered nary damage. The bureau has launched an probe into the incident.
The incidental is the latest successful a bid of adjacent encounters involving drones and commercialized aircraft.
Just days earlier the JetBlue incident, a United Airlines aviator reported astir colliding with a drone portion approaching Newark Liberty International Airport successful New Jersey.
The FAA said the JetBlue aviator reported striking a drone astatine an altitude of astir 3,000ft (900m) astir 07:15 EDT (11:15 GMT).
"We are wide to land, 13 left," the aviator said successful aerial postulation power audio recorded by ATC.com, according to CNN. "Just quickly, I couldn't speech to approach, but we collided with a drone backmost determination successful the turn."
"You said you collided?" the controller asked.
The aviator confirmed, "Yep, it deed america right, close supra the cockpit."
In a connection to the BBC, JetBlue said: "The formation landed without incident, customers deplaned normally, and the level was removed from work for a post-flight inspection, which recovered nary harm oregon grounds of a collision."
The FAA estimates it receives much than 100 reports of drone sightings adjacent airports each month, contempt regulations prohibiting unauthorised drone operations successful the vicinity.
The bureau warns that unauthorised operators whitethorn look "stiff fines and transgression charges, including imaginable jailhouse time".
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