Thank goodness they are safe according to the FAA and we will only have to be dodging 30,000 of them in a year or two.

Did it miss the plane or nearly miss it?

So which is it?    Did it miss or only nearly miss?


eta: Oh goddamit.

That image is downright terrifying for someone who spends every moment of the flight waiting for the inevitable crash.

That's because the "pilots" have zero skin in the game.

They can hit the reset button.

We can't.

If the soviet union had them, they'd put explosive charges under the operators' seats in case of a crash.

Someone should regulate them. For safety. For the children.

It is my understanding that this video is from 2004. I can't believe that an Afghan Airlines plane doesn't have goats strapped to the wings.

The goats are the pilots.



 

Oh OK I was confused for a bit...

Traffic 11:00 low.... Not so low... Traffic 11:00!!!!!

Wut?

Don't worry about it

Look at the date it happened...


2004.


That's an eternity from a technological standpoint. So, who cares?

It was classified - presumably leaked and posted only recently




As for "who cares?"

<George Carlin>

It's not a near miss, it's a near hit!

*boom* "Look, they nearly missed!" "Yup, but not quite!"

</George Carlin>

Give that drone pilot a medal!

Pilot - cheska in tea kettle cozy for a hat.
Stewardesses - goats

After the passengers saw the German markings on it I wonder if they thought is was German V-1 buzzbomb.

Yes, there are ZERO repercussions if one of us hits another aircraft.

None.

In fact, we make it a game to see how many other aircraft we can down. Civilians are double points.



I am EXTREMELY paranoid about other planes in my space. I've already had to dodge helicopters on two occasions (Cleared both times by the MCT, on one occasion the helicopter had never called in and just showed up one night, on the other a pair of helicopters decided they didn't want to hold for a mere UAV and decided to land anyway) and have had other manned aircraft at my altitude in my area because of idiot controllers (one was a pair of Apaches less than a mile away).

People need to understand that UAVs are NOT always the problem, and they're NOT always at fault (are they sometimes? Absolutely). They also need to understand that during launch or recovery, some systems (like the one I fly) have fixed nose cameras, and I can only see the slice of sky in front of me. I can't turn my head and look for a contractor MI-8 trying to mate with me

Did the drone "fly toward the passenger aircraft" or did the passenger aircraft overtake (and almost run over) the drone?

I interpreted the title as a smart ass way to say they collided.