A video posted to YouTube by a pilot flying out of Torrance Airport in Southern California appears to show a manned jetpack flying at about 3,000 feet over the ocean southwest of the Palos Verdes peninsula. In a description of the video, the pilot who captured the footage, a Sling Pilot Academy flight instructor, wrote, “The video appears to show a jet pack, but it could also be a drone or some other object.”
In widely reported incidents this year, airline pilots flying into Los Angeles International Airport reported seeing a manned jetpack in close proximity. One such incident was at 6,000 feet northwest of LAX, and this may have been inside Class B airspace, where drone operations are not normally permitted. The Palos Verdes incident location is underneath Class B airspace in an area where there are fewer restrictions on drone flying, although this is also a congested area due to heavy flight training activity.
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