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An Italian commercial jetliner pilot spotted a drone aircraft hovering near his plane as he landed at JFK Airport Monday, FoxNews reports.
The incident has prompted an investigation by the Joint Terror Task Force.
The Alitalia pilot spotted the unmanned craft — described as “a black drone” — hovering just 200 feet from his jet about three miles east of the airport as he made his approach from Brooklyn.
“He was very clear as to what he saw,” a source said.
The pilot told investigators the object was flying at about 1,800 feet and looked like “a black drone about a meter square, with helicopter rotors on the corners.”
This story coming at the same time CNET reports on U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security customizing Predator drones to carry out at-home surveillance tasks that include identifying civilians carrying guns and tracking their cell phones.
Read more on “black drone” at Fox News.
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So Big Brother really, REALLY IS watching. Welcome to Amerika!
That Alitalia pilot must really have some eyes. The “black drone” he said he saw was about 200 feet away from his aircraft and about three feet accross. Landing speed he was going was about 200 mph. So, he had to be able to see something that small, going 200 mph, while doing his landing checklist and all that entails. I’m impressed. I don’t mean to cast some doubt, but, I’ve been in large aircraft cockpits during landing, and the crew seems awful busy to be able to see something this small in this detail landing in one of the most busy landing patterns in the world. Just saying…
Keep hearing about these.Don’t mind them being used on countries overseas,that are people who’d like to destroy us.When these are used on,we need to rethink how useful these aren’t on our United States(American people)>LIz
It was a Christine O’Donnell on a broomstick.