Near miss between an american airliner and a drone. It happened 2300 feet in the air near tallahassee, florida. The near miss occurred in march, but the incident is obviously just coming to light tonight. Jack nicholas broke the story for the wall street journal. How did it happen . Thats a good question. And thats what many people are trying to figure out. What we know right new and what an faa official revealed on thursday is that a us airways regional jet pilot was flying, approaching into tallahassee and saw a what would be a drone, what probably is a model aircraft come as close as according to the faa official that he had hit it. Now later inspection of the aircraft revealed that they had not touched. But two aircraft coming this close airborne is extraordinary, because under faa regulation, aircraft should be at least one thousand feet apart vertically and several miles apart horizontally. So obviously this is an extraordinary incident. Extraordinary. And how big of a danger cou
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