Airliners come within 100 feet of drone over New York

Story highlightsTwo flights record drone sightings inside 100 feet regarding themFAA gets withregards to a couple of reviews each day via pilots saying they will spotted an unmanned aerialvehicle The Particular first, JetBlue Flight 1843, reported spotting any drone in 2:24 p.m. althoughapproaching John F. Kennedy International Airport, according to the Federal AviationAdministration. Throughout the particular audio recording, the cockpit says the drone passed justbeneath your planes nose when the jet had been flying in an altitude regarding regarding 800 to beable to 900 feet.

Then from with regards to 5 p.m., Delta Flight 407 -- that have 154 individuals on board -- waspreparing for you to property if the cockpit reported visiting a drone beneath its right wing.

Neither plane required to take evasive action, according towards the FAA.

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Both landed safely and each as well as every incident is being investigated through the FAA thoughit's unclear whether both are usually related.

Dangerously closeThe Delta flight had its drone encounter near Floyd Bennett Field, situated inGateway National Recreation Area. The Gateway National Recreation Services park ranger advisedCNN that the area does not permit drone flying but many aviation enthusiasts can be found flying"radio-controlled propeller crafts along with unmanned little jets."

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However, there exists a room inside Floyd Bennett field where folks with a permit and members ofan aviation club might fly their particular little craft, the actual ranger said.

Unmanned aircraft methods are generally neither supposed to fly within five miles involving anairport with out notifying edinburgh airport operator along with manage tower nor is it supposed inorder to go over 400 feet.

But your FAA says it gets about 2 reviews per day through pilots declaring these people spotted anunmanned aerial vehicle.

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"It's very, really concerning since having drones in JFK or perhaps just about any significant airportended up being illegal even before the newest drone laws arrived to effect," CNN aviation analystMary Schiavo says. "What is going on now could be there are several stiff prosecutions being handedout -- which includes jail occasion -- pertaining to lawbreakers. While these people people obtain theword, they will not do such idiotic items anymore."

'It's crazy'Drones in which fly as well near commercial flights pose any serious threat towards thelarger aircraft, Phil Derner involving NYCaviation.com told CNN affiliate WPIX.

They can be sucked to the engine or even crash in for you to the cockpit window.

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"Going straight into an engine could destroy an engine," Derner said. "Going into the cockpit windowcould injure a new pilot or perhaps kill a new pilot."

But CNN analysts Bob Baer and also Jonathan Gilliam be concerned about how exactly drones couldbe used by those seeking to end up being able to attack planes.

"This is actually crazy," Baer said. "You can take these drones and, with a 3D printer, make positivethey will are out of explosives. They're just crazy and they're advancing quite quickly."

Baer says which airports should consider jamming drones near airports or perhaps just just "knockthese people out of the air."

Gilliam thinks which drones really should not be capable of fly as substantial or even as way as theydo. "Four hundred feet away from the controller, these drones should shut off," he said.

CNN's Kevin Bohn, Katie Tutrone and Anne Woolsey contributed in order to this report