{"id":2947,"date":"2016-04-21T17:40:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T21:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2016-04-21T17:41:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T21:41:53","slug":"londons-heathrow-incident-believed-to-be-a-plastic-bag-not-a-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/2016\/04\/21\/londons-heathrow-incident-believed-to-be-a-plastic-bag-not-a-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"London&#8217;s Heathrow incident believed to be a plastic bag, not a drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Telegraph<\/em>\u00a0published an article today indicating that the incident at London\u2019s Heathrow airport this past Sunday could have been caused by a plastic bag \u2013 not, as had been previously reported, by a drone. United Kingdom Transport minister Robert Goodwill stated that,\u201cthere was no actual damage to the plane\u201d and \u201cit may have even been a plastic bag.\u201d For reference, the full article is available below.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/04\/21\/drone-believed-to-have-hit-british-airways-flight-may-have-been\/\"><strong>THE TELEGRAPH: Drone believed to have hit British Airways flight &#8216;may have been a plastic bag&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Steven Swinford, Deputy Political Editor<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Posted April 21, 2016 3:43PM<\/p>\n<p>The drone that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/04\/17\/drone-hits-british-airways-plane\/\">reportedly hit a British Airways jet earlier this week<\/a>\u00a0may have actually been a plastic bag, a minister has said.<\/p>\n<p>Transport minister Robert Goodwill admitted authorities had not yet confirmed whether what struck\u00a0the Airbus A320\u00a0was\u00a0a remote-controlled device.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The collision\u00a0on Sunday night\u00a0is believed to have been\u00a0at around 1,700 ft near Richmond Park in south west London, over four times higher than the legal height limit.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Accidents Investigation Branch is investigating, alongside the Metropolitan Police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But following his comments today, Mr Goodwill\u00a0also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/2016\/04\/20\/drones-banned-in-london-for-us-president-barack-obamas-visit\/\">dismissed calls for tighter rules on drone use<\/a>\u00a0to protect against terror threats insisting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/04\/18\/lack-of-regulation-blamed-for-drone-hitting-ba-jet\/\">current rules governing drone use were strong enough<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He said it would be much easier for terrorists to attack airports on the ground with rucksacks or car bombs than orchestrate the attack from a drone aircraft. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Goodwill was also sceptical about calls to force all manufacturers to install GPS coordinates that would prevent drones flying in restricted areas &#8211; known as &#8220;geo-fencing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that any moves to enforce geo-fencing rules would be vulnerable to being hacked \u00a0by &#8220;somebody who could get round that software&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Goodwill said: &#8220;The reported drone strike on Sunday has not been confirmed it was actually a drone. It was the local police force that tweeted that they had a report of a drone striking an aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph\u00a0published an article today indicating that the incident at London\u2019s Heathrow airport this past Sunday could have been caused by a plastic bag \u2013 not, as had been previously reported, by a drone. United Kingdom Transport minister Robert Goodwill stated that,\u201cthere was no actual damage to the plane\u201d and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drone","category-faa","category-suas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2949,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions\/2949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}