Safety
UK Report: Drone Proximity Incidents Double
The number of encounters involving general aviation aircraft increased to 86 percent.

Proximity incidents between drones and aircraft more than doubled in the UK last year, rising from 40 such encounters in 2015 to 94 in 2016, according to the latest annual report from the UK Airprox Board (UKAB). These results continue a trend of increasing drone-aircraft proximity incidents that reflect the “growing availability and popularity in the last few years” of unmanned aircraft systems, the report said.


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