Europe to urgently assess risk of drones hitting planes


  • World
  • Thursday, 05 May 2016

A drone flies over Enfield in north London, Britain April 20, 2016. Photograph taken April 20, 2016. REUTERS/Tom Jacobs

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European aviation safety authorities have set up a task force to urgently assess the dangers of collisions between drones and aircraft after a rise in near-misses with passenger planes.

The use of civil drones, whether for commercial purposes such as crop surveillance, monitoring of natural disasters, photography or leisure, is rising and aircraft pilots are increasingly reporting near-misses.

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