{"id":365554,"date":"2025-08-22T20:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/365554\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T20:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:55:14","slug":"drone-risked-plane-collision-over-central-london-ukab-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/365554\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone &#8216;risked plane collision&#8217; over central London &#8211; UKAB report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airproxboard.org.uk\/Documents\/Download\/2501\/498f7604-6e1f-4417-8847-801e6237c3e8\/3711\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The report said, external<\/a>: &#8220;The object appeared to be approximately 2-3m in size at the very least, it may have been larger as it filled a good proportion of the windshield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The first officer observed that it was triangular in shape. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The pilot stated that the object &#8216;went over us, probably within about 10 metres&#8217;,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UKAB, which monitors near misses in aviation, concluded that &#8220;providence had played a major part in the incident and a definite risk of collision had existed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident was immediately reported to air traffic controllers, the report said, although the drone operator was not located, according to the UKAB.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An Airbus A320 can carry as many as 180 passengers, although it is not know how many people were on board at the time or which airline it was operated by.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rise in popularity of drones has been an ongoing issue for the aviation industry, particularly since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-sussex-46623754\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a major incident affecting Gatwick Airport in December 2018.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hundreds of thousands of people had their Christmas holiday plans ruined by drones being repeatedly flown near the airport, which police described as &#8220;deliberate act&#8221; of disruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The report said, external: &#8220;The object appeared to be approximately 2-3m in size at the very least, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-365554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115074414945803414","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}