Near miss entre un UAV et un Merlin
Publié : lun. janv. 12, 2015 4:49 pm
The British Army almost brought down a troop-carrying RAF helicopter when one of its own drones flew within 60ft of the giant aircraft, a report found.The £15million Merlin vehicle and metre-long Desert Hawk surveillance drone should have been flying in their own restricted areas.But they came close to crashing during a massive military training exercise, as crews blamed map-reading errors and a dispute over airspace for the near catastrophe.Britain’s Joint Helicopter command has been told to review its procedures after serious errors put lives at risk.
However there was no way of telling whose fault the incident was, experts from the UK Airprox Board, which investigates near misses in British airspace, concluded.The incident happened above a replica Afghan village north of Thetford, Norfolk, which has been purpose built in the 30,000-acre Stanford training area.
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