Planes having close encounters with drones near Alabama’s busiest airport

Published November 13, 2017 This content is archived.

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A story on WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C., about how drones do – and don’t – threaten small, low-flying passenger aircraft after quadcopters crashed into a helicopter and airplane interviews Javid Bayandor, founder and director of UB’s Crashworthiness for Aerospace Structures and Hybrids (CRASH) Lab.

Bayandor said a drone could be sucked into a jet engine. “If anything gets ingested, and you feel you have to turn off an engine, you have to definitely make an emergency landing,” he said.

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