A Lufthansa plane approaching Warsaw’s international airport nearly collided with what appeared to be a drone, the first ever such incident for the German airline, officials said Tuesday.
Przemyslaw Przybylski, the spokesman for Warsaw’s airport, said the incident occurred Monday afternoon around 4 p.m. when a drone passed within 100 metres of the plane arriving from Munich.
He said the near-collision did not occur at the airport itself, but 5 kilometres away near Piaseczno, a town south of Warsaw.
Police are investigating the incident to determine who operated the drone, which should not have been where it was.
A spokeswoman for Lufthansa, Bettina Rittberger, was more hesitant about declaring the object a drone. She said that “a black object appeared on the right side of the plane” at an altitude of 760 metres and that the crew “supposed that this object could be a drone.” She said she couldn’t give more details until the investigation produces more results.
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