FAA Acknowledges Gulfstream G550 Struck an Object at 27,000 Feet

FAA Acknowledges G550 In-flight Object Strike at FL270

A report of engine damage claims a metallic object was involved

G550 midair collision with object — ADS-B Exchange captured the flight path of the Gulfstream G550 that experienced failure of one engine after collision with an object at 27,000 feet.

By Matt Thurber • Editor-in-Chief

January 7, 2025

The FAA confirmed to AIN that a Gulfstream G550 experienced a midair collision with a mysterious object at FL270 in Miami airspace on December 11 during a flight from Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport (KFXE) to New York’s Westchester County Airport (KHPN). According to the FAA statement, the twinjet diverted to, and landed safely at, Palm Beach International Airport (KPBI) “after the pilot reported striking an object in Miami airspace.”

Little information is available publicly about the incident, other than an entry on Flight Safety Foundation’s Aviation Safety Network website and a post on social media platform X by Ryan Graves, co-founder and executive director of Americans for Safe Aerospace, a website and nonprofit organization for reporting unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). According to Graves’ post, one of the G550’s engines failed after the encounter with “an unidentified metallic object…at approximately 27,000 feet.”

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