2 airliners have 100-foot near miss with drone above New York (JFK)

CNN ^ | August 1, 2015 | Joshua Berlinger

[Zakeet]

Two airplanes flying near one of the nation's busiest airports each came within 100 feet of a drone on Friday, according to audio from each flight's radio calls.

The first, JetBlue Flight 1843, reported spotting a drone at 2:24 p.m. while approaching John F. Kennedy International Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. In the audio recording, the cockpit says that the drone passed just below the planes nose when the jet was flying at an altitude of about 800 to 900 feet.

Then at about 5 p.m., Delta Flight 407 -- which had 154 people on board -- was preparing to land when the cockpit reported seeing a drone below its right wing.

[mware]

Agreed

Folks like you who are responsible and use common sense are not the problem. It's the people flying them near airports and such that I worry about.

[Twinkie]

That’s just it. With these drones becoming eventually as ubiquitous as cellphones; the danger to commercial airliners will be a given. - Attempting to enact “laws” to “control” them is a laugh.

[DoughtyOne]

In life it's the one or two idiots who ruin it for everyone else.


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[JimSEA]

Isn’t that the truth. Like they used to “Someone will always spoil a good thing”. Most of us are responsible but the majority screw it up

[dfwgator]

“Here’s a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. They say that if 2 planes almost collide, it’s a near miss. Bullshhhhhh, my friend. It’s a near hit! A collision is a near miss.
[WHAM! CRUNCH!]
“Look, they nearly missed!”
“Yes, but not quite.”

-George Carlin

[RansomOttawa]

I guess not every headline writer got the memo that a "near miss" means they hit. (sigh)

"Near miss" doesn't mean "nearly miss," it means "missed when they were nearby." Everybody but grammar pedants understands this.

[MaxMax]

I agree. I might tolerate sitting between two skinny Freepers.

[Larry Lucido]

[CodeToad]

I didn’t like his politics but the mans was a genius. We saw him on his last show tour and he was one of the best I had seen. Cosby was boring, but Carlin killed.

[moviefan8]

This is another case where people abuse things that will lead to elimination of those things.

I am not sure if this makes sense. I am a little under the weather today.

We will lose our rights to have a drone because of these idiots.

[Hawthorn]

>> I guess not every headline writer got the memo that a "near miss" means they hit <<

Gotta disagree, in the most respectful of ways. To me, the noun miss is determinative of the phrase's commonsense meaning.

Therefore, I think the phrase simply tells one that although the two objects were so "near" to one another as to make a collision seem likely, in fact there was no collision -- in other words, there was a miss.

Now if I interpret your post correctly, you're reading the phrase as if it says that the two objects "nearly missed" or "almost missed" one another. That's not an unreasonable interpretation, I guess, in terms of pure logic. But as we know, logic doesn't always rule in matters of idiomatic language. So I believe standard usage and plain meaning are on my side.

[lewislynn]

So two planes hit a drone above JFK?