FAA records detail hundreds of close calls between airplanes and drones

[jeff47]

19. No, that was something like 10 bird strikes.

Remember, he hit a flock of birds. Not one.

If a drone gets sucked into an engine the consequences could be dire.

First, they build the engines to handle the ingestion of a bird. They don't build them to handle the ingestion of several birds at once.

Second, a drone being sucked into one engine is at worst bad for that engine. There's another engine on all commercial aircraft.

Meanwhile, a drone plummeting from the sky landing on someone's head will definitely be bad for that person.

Better to have it hit the plane than fall uncontrolled in a populated area.