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danman999
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Eye witness reports are notoriously unreliable.
A MP would certainly ground a plane while the turbine was checked for damage causing a large delay and expense even if it didnt cause any more of an incident. Anything solid going into an engine means that plane is grounded pending checks.#
Most "drone" sightings from commercial aircraft i treat as garbage. The things are so small and closure rate is so fast the chances of anyone seeing it and processing what they've seen to recognise something are remote and quite probably beyond human reaction time. Its a case of "i saw something, therefore drone" and its rarely questioned.
Its fashionable to blame anything these days on a drone. Idiots doing stupid things with them in areas they shouldnt be or flying dangerously don't help matters either - it just reinforces that view.
However, this case would appear different as there is photographic and video evidence of something.
Who is more familiar in the environment...certificated airplane pilots with years of training and hundreds to thousands of hours of flight time, or some hobbyist who thinks a drone makes them an aviator?