Drone Near NYC's JFK Airport Spotted By Pilot; FBI And FAA Investigating

[tru_m.a.c]

NEW YORK -- The FBI and the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday they are investigating a pilot's report that he spotted a small unmanned aircraft near Kennedy Airport.

The Alitalia pilot told controllers that he saw the aircraft as he approached the runway at Kennedy at about 1:15 p.m. Monday. The pilot said the aircraft was 4 to 5 miles southeast of the airport and was flying at an altitude of about 1,500 feet.

The FBI said the aircraft was described as black in color and no more than 3 feet wide with four propellers.

"The FBI is asking anyone with information about the unmanned aircraft or the operator to contact us," Special Agent in Charge John Giacalone said. "Our paramount concern is the safety of aircraft passengers and crew."

The FBI said the unmanned aircraft came within 200 feet of the Alitalia plane.

The Alitalia pilot can be heard on radio calls captured by LiveATC.net, a website that posts air traffic communications, saying, "We saw a drone, a drone aircraft." The FAA said the pilot did not take evasive action and the plane landed safely.

The FAA and FBI did not say whether Alitalia passengers might have seen the unmanned aircraft.

It's unclear what the small aircraft was. Some remote-controlled planes flown by hobbyists are wider than 3 feet. Under FAA rules, model planes are restricted to altitudes of 400 feet or less.

and they said surveillance would never happen

 

[ROFL_GUY]

 

[Type Username Here]

Thank you Obama!

 

[Mr. Somebody]

I think they'll work this out with a couple calls to the executive branch.

 

[Type Username Here]

I think they'll work this out with a couple calls to the executive branch.

This is how that call would go:

Caller: Hi, I just wanted to ask for a confirmation of a drone sighting in NYC.

White House Rep: Have you heard about NDAA and indefinite detention?

Caller: *click*

 

[zerozero]

1500 feet? that's no hobbyist craft

 

[Mr. Somebody]

This is how that call would go:

Caller: Hi, I just wanted to ask for a confirmation of a drone sighting in NYC.

White House Rep: Have you heard about NDAA and indefinite detention?

Caller: *click*

How does that call fall in line with being suspected of being part of some offensive group that will require a citizen to be held indefinately without trial?

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

1500 feet? that's no hobbyist craft

Floyd Vennett Field...https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&...=UX02UamGJam70QG06oH4Dg&sqi=2&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAg


i've seen duds flying RC jet planes there...like legit jet engines and it is rather close to JFK. JFK is just North/North East of it. i could see someone with a strong enough radio signal buzzing by that.

just this past summer some dude took his jet ski up onto a runway at JFK after he ran out of gas and just walked into a terminal.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

Floyd Vennett Field...https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&...=UX02UamGJam70QG06oH4Dg&sqi=2&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAg


i've seen duds flying RC jet planes there...like legit jet engines and it is rather close to JFK. JFK is just North/North East of it. i could see someone with a strong enough radio signal buzzing by that.

just this past summer some dude took his jet ski up onto a runway at JFK after he ran out of gas and just walked into a terminal.

Casillo's night started aboard his newly repaired, bright-yellow personal watercraft in Jamaica Bay. It broke down just outside of the airport's approach.

"I looked around. No lights, no boats, nothing. No noise. Just pitch black," Casillo said.

With no idea what to do, Casillo spotted the lighted control tower in the distance. He left the water scooter and embarked on a three-mile swim to reach land. Still wearing his life jacket, Casillo then hiked through a muddy marsh when he reached a chain-link, barbed-wire fence.

"I just made the decision: I'm going to have to get found. I'm going to take it upon myself to get over this fence to get seen. Something has to happen," Casillo said.

Cold and disoriented, Casillo climbed the 8-foot fence, but nothing happened. Despite climbing the fence and violating the law, Casillo remained undetected and headed toward the control tower.

"That was the only thing lit up that I could go to," Casillo said.

Casillo walked across two runways past security, cameras and motion detectors that the airport recently paid millions of dollars to install.

"I figured I was going to be on cameras," he said, "that somebody is going to pick me up and maybe a helicopter is going to come or a police car."

Still unnoticed and wearing his life jacket, Casillo entered Delta's Terminal 3, dripping wet when he finally walked up to a cargo worker.

could you image that cargo workers face

shyt had to be mixture of

 

[Hood Critic]

I guess the domestic drones are black huh?

 

[daze23]

The unmanned aircraft, described by the FBI as black and no more than three feet wide with four propellers, came within 200 feet of the Boeing jetliner.

I'm thinking something like this:

at 1500 ft? and identified at 200 ft away? while travelling at xxx mph?

I find it hard to believe someone could identify that in those conditions. sounds like he saw something, and his brain fit it into something that currently being talked about. but who knows...

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

I'm thinking something like this:

at 1500 ft? and identified at 200 ft away? while travelling at xxx mph?

I find it hard to believe someone could identify that in those conditions. sounds like he saw something, and his brain fit it into something that currently being talked about. but who knows...

aliens.

 

[88m3]

aliens.

that's what I was thinking as well

 

[daze23]

aliens.

it was actually Lucifer bound to a wheel of fire

 

[88m3]

it was actually Lucifer bound to a wheel of fire

I mean it's possible right?