Drone missed
Heathrow-bound 787's engine by 10ft
22 OCTOBER, 2018 - SOURCE:
FLIGHT DASHBOARD -LONDON
UK investigators
have disclosed that an unmanned aerial vehicle was flown within 10ft of a
Boeing 787 on approach to London Heathrow.
The aircraft had been operating
at 3,200ft on approach to runway 27L on 25 June, according to the UK Airprox
Board.
It says a “drone-like object”
was seen to pass just below the right wing, avoiding an impact with the
starboard engine.
The board says the drone was
being flown beyond visual line-of-sight limits, at an altitude and in a
position which meant it was “endangering other aircraft”, adding that it posed
the highest category of collision risk.
It has not identified the 787
operator involved, although the time of the encounter coincides with the
flightpath of a Virgin Atlantic 787-9 service arriving from Delhi.
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