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What Does Increased Drone Use Mean For Air Safety?<\/h4>\n

(Daily Herald<\/strong><\/a>) The millions of small civilian drones plying the nation’s skies can cause significant damage to airplanes in a midair collision, new research commissioned by the Federal Aviation Administration concluded.<\/p>\n

While most drones weigh only a few pounds, they include motors and other metal equipment that could cause significant damage to aircraft engines, windshields or wings upon impact, the study by an FAA research center found.<\/p>\n

Even though airliners and other aircraft are designed to withstand impacts from birds, “it doesn’t mean they are going to be able to withstand a 4-pound or an 8-pound UAS impact,” said Gerardo Olivares, a researcher at Wichita State University in Kansas who helped lead the study. He referred to drones as UAS, or unmanned aerial systems.<\/p>\n

The results of the government-sanctioned study, the most comprehensive of its kind to date, add urgency to FAA’s efforts to improve safety as the industry pushes to expand drone operations in everything from delivering consumer goods to performing aerial inspections. It also comes on the heels of the first two midair collisions between small drones and traditional aircraft in North America.<\/p>\n

Last month the FAA said reports of drone-safety incidents, including flying improperly or getting too close to other aircraft, now average about 250 a month, up more than 50 percent from a year earlier. The reports include near-collisions described by pilots on airliners, law-enforcement helicopters or aerial tankers fighting wildfires.<\/p>\n

The agency estimates that 2.3 million of the devices will be sold for recreational use in the U.S. this year. As of Nov. 3, more than 838,000 people had registered with FAA as owners of small, civilian drones.<\/p>\n

A separate set of tests released by FAA released earlier this year found that small drones popular with hobbyists and some commercial photographers were unlikely to cause serious head and neck injuries if they fell from the sky and hit people. A study by researchers at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, reached similar conclusions.<\/p>\n

Separate from the FAA-sponsored tests, accident investigators in the U.S. and Canada are looking at the damage caused by two actual collisions with aircraft.<\/p>\n

An Army helicopter struck a SZ DJI Technology Co. Phantom 4 drone on Sept. 21 near Staten Island, New York. The device damaged the UH-60 Black Hawk chopper’s rotor blade, window frame and transmission deck, according to a preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board. The helicopter crew landed safely.<\/p>\n

On Oct. 12, a chartered turboprop carrying six passengers and two crew members struck a drone at about 1,500 feet (457 meters) altitude as it prepared to land in Quebec, according to the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. The Beechcraft King Air A100, which sustained minor damage to the left wing, landed a short time later and there were no injuries.<\/p>\n

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Current regulations in the U.S. and Canada include provisions designed to prevent drones from operating near aircraft. In most cases, drones are supposed to stick to low altitudes below where aircraft operate and they aren’t allowed to fly near airports without special permission. But the upswing in reported safety incidents suggest that many unmanned operators either ignore the rules or don’t know them.<\/p>\n

The risks from drones is far from theoretical, based on data collected about impacts with birds. Aircraft collisions with birds and other wildlife have killed 262 people around the world since 1988, according to an FAA report released last year. A flock of geese brought down a jetliner in New York in 2009, though it was able to touch down on the Hudson River and no one died.<\/p>\n

Determining the risks of a midair collision between drones and traditional planes and helicopters is critical to opening the skies to greater uses of drones.<\/p>\n

Companies ranging from retail and technology giants Amazon.com and Alphabet Inc. to startups such as Flirtey are hoping to capitalize on drone technology to make commercial deliveries. At the same time, other businesses want to expand use of unmanned craft for aerial inspections, from Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s BNSF Railway to Farmers Insurance Group.<\/p>\n

Even though these companies plan to fly at low altitudes below most human-occupied aircraft, the FAA could impose stricter safety systems on such drones if collisions could cause catastrophic damage.<\/p>\n

The crash-study results could also steer FAA on its policies for enforcing existing drone-flight rules. As incidents rise, the FAA may be more inclined to seek fines or criminal penalties on drone users who flout the rules designed to keep them away from other aircraft.<\/p>\n

The study released Tuesday was done by the Alliance for Safety of UAS Through Research Excellence, an FAA-sponsored center of excellence that goes by the moniker ASSURE..<\/p>\n

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