Melbourne-based photographer Simon Pollock was landing at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday when he looked out his window and spotted a DJI camera drone flying just a small distance away.
“Drones. All fun and games until you’re looking out your window on approach to LAX and you spot a Phantom just out your window (yeah a few hundred feet, but imagine if it… well…),” writes Pollock in a Facebook post. “Some people are utterly stupid.”
It’s illegal to fly drones anywhere within 5 miles of airports unless given explicit permission from authorities. There have been reported incidents of drones hitting airplanes in recent days, including in landing in England and Canada .
We recently also shared an air traffic visualization showing the chaos that ensues when a drone is spotted near an airport.
from PetaPixel https://petapixel.com/2017/12/16/mans-photo-shows-dji-drone-near-plane-landing-lax/
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