Drone and Civilian Aircraft Collision!

Gonna call bullshit on that one. More like Fox than CNN. No evidence no real story plus crap about other incidents that never happened and even that dumbass eagle story for 2 years ago!

 

Yes, our eagle trials were mostly publicity I think? Also, I just hear the Canada plane had blood on the wing and I do not think that a drone can bleed? And second also, the plane only had 8 people on it so it was a small passenger plane, not a big airliner like a lot of headlines are trying to insinuate for sensation I think?
I have not seen any pictures though to confirm the blood, does anyone see them?

 

This is pretty much the same plane:

Never heard anything about blood. In fact no one has really been told anything at all. This article says it all for me, sums up this whole anti drone bullshit in a nutshell:

A Small Drone Hits A Commercial Airliner ... And Nothing Happens

The media headlines have been dramatic – and frightening – since the Canadian Minister of Transport announced in a press release: “On Oct. 12, 2017, a Skyjet flight was struck by a drone while inbound to Jean Lesage International Airport in Quebec City. This is the first time a drone has hit a commercial aircraft in Canada, and I am extremely relieved that the aircraft sustained minor damage and was able to land safely.”

Some news articles and cable news programs have taken this alleged incident to once again fan fears of an imminent air disaster.

But as a longtime aviation accident investigator, I say hogwash to all the fearmongering. First of all, like many in the drone community, I am skeptical of reports of drones hitting aircraft; time and again, we have seen breathless reports of drone and aircraft crashes ultimately proved to be false or at a minimum unverifiable.

Here, the evidence is scant. I have requested any incident reports from Transport Canada – the equivalent of the U.S. Department of Transportation – but to date have not received any. The Transport Minister’s announcement concludes that a drone struck the Skyjet flight but provides no evidence of how that conclusion was reached. From various media reports, it appears that the pilots spotted what they determined was a small drone (40 centimeters by 10 centimeters in one report, which is approximately 16 inches by 4 inches) moments before it allegedly hit the left wing of their Beech King Air A100 as they were descending from 1,500 feet to land in Quebec City.
But even if we assume that the aircraft did in fact hit a small drone, nothing happened. According to the Transportation Safety Board (Canada’s NTSB), which is investigating the incident, “the aircraft inspection revealed a few scratches and some paint transfer on the top surface of the left wing and scrape marks on the deicing boot.” It appears from the TSB report that the aircraft was returned to service without any repair necessary.

Nothing surprising here. The crash of a commercial aircraft with a small consumer drone – say, less than four pounds – is unlikely to cause anything more than minor damage. Even if a small drone hit the propellers of this King Air aircraft, it’s unlikely that the damage would have been more than nicks or small gouges, which might require repair but would not cause the aircraft to crash. (Even if a small drone were ingested in a jet engine, it would be extremely unlikely to cause the aircraft to crash.)
So while no one wants drones and aircraft in the same airspace at the same time, the hysteria surrounding the possibility of aircraft hitting small drones and causing a disaster is unjustified and often leads – as it is now – to calls for greater regulation of small drones. This would be unfortunate for many reasons, including the fact that tougher regulations would likely have not prevented this incident.
By John Goglia

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngo...al-airliner-and-nothing-happens/#6c7ab74c9ea1