At 9: 0015, during the flight, a pilot suddenly found a drone near Liucheng High School in Chaoyang New County.
The situation is urgent. If the plane comes into contact with the drone, the consequences are unimaginable. If it is serious, the plane will even be destroyed! The pilot immediately reported to the controller of Chaoyang Airport.
The controller immediately informed the commander of the flight academy to direct the training aircraft to the unaffected airspace, and the runway was temporarily unavailable.
At 9: 0016, the controller informed the on-site commander, who informed the personnel in the flight area to rush to the scene immediately and report to the airport police station.
After the personnel in the flight area arrived at the scene, no drones were found, and the situation was fed back to the on-site command center. After investigation, the drone has been recovered. However, the specific situation of drone personnel was not mastered.
The airport resumed normal use of the runway on 10. Due to this incident, the runway of the airport could not be used for nearly 55 minutes, which seriously affected the normal operation of the airport.
Although the drone is small, its destructive power is not small.
UAV is short for unmanned aerial vehicle. Due to the rapid development of UAV manufacturing technology, the price of UAV is decreasing day by day. Some models cost only a few thousand dollars, and some fans buy them, which leads to a great increase in the number of private drones.
A person in charge of Chaoyang Airport said that the plane was very close to the ground when it took off or landed, and some drones would pose a great threat to the plane even if they didn't fly very high.
From May to August this year, special rectification of drones was carried out in various places. Relevant departments need to master the number of drones and production enterprises, delimit and publish airport clearance protection zones and drone flight zones, and seriously investigate and deal with intentional accidents caused by drones.
Recently, Chaoyang City also held a joint meeting on airport clearance safety in the whole city, and put forward the potential safety hazards of clearance environment currently faced by Chaoyang Airport, expecting relevant departments to help solve them in time.