Category A "near miss" between quadcopter drone and B737 at 2800 ft

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Stansted Airport: Drone came within 6ft of Boeing 737, report says - BBC News

"The whole event happened too quickly for any avoiding action to be taken."

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Seconded....

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From page 13 of the Inspector General's Feb 23 2021 report into the FAA's certification of the Max:

"While FAA’s regulations do not contain a limit on the number or types of exceptions that can be granted .. agency officials stated that one of their lessons learned from the certification of the MAX is the need to limit the exceptions that it grants ... According to Boeing, the inclusion of such a system would have ... jeopardized maintaining the same type rating between the 737 MAX and the 737 NG. The FAA Director of System Oversight told us that his office plans to work with manufacturers to limit exceptions for future amended type certification projects when manufacturers request them for their projects, and has already done so on an aircraft currently undergoing certification"...

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