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Author Topic: Drone Flies Dangerously Close to San Diego Airport Moments Before Plane Lands  (Read 49 times)

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https://www.newsbreak.com/mediaite-520570/4199789136111-watch-drone-flies-dangerously-close-to-san-diego-airport-moments-before-plane-lands

(video in the link, wow.)

  Moments later, the drone was seen hovering in place before suddenly going up even higher. Kevin noted that it was nearly in the flight path for planes coming in to land. Then, it lowered back down and began whizzing around the area.

“Now it’s coming our direction!” Kevin said. “Whoever has that drone, you might be going to jail! I mean, literally, it’s right in front of us. Look at this thing! That’s how close it is to my camera — right below the flight path of SAN.

Seconds later, and just a few hundred feet above the drone, a Southwest Airlines plane passed by as it prepared to land.

As noted in the tweet from Airline Videos, authorities were notified about the drone and air traffic controller informed inbound pilots of its presence.A drone was spotted flying dangerously close to the flight path of an incoming plane at San Diego International Airport on Tuesday.

The sighting was made during a stream from the plane spotting YouTube channel Airline Videos. Stream host Kevin had the camera focused in the opposite direction when he suddenly turned the camera around.

“Oh my gosh, there’s a drone!” he said. “No, get that drone out of here! What is going on here? That drone should not be in the way of these aircraft. Oh my gosh. Just on the other side of that building. Get that drone out of here! What are you doing?”