(Bloomberg) — A recreational operator, who didn't know that federal authorities had temporarily banned all drone flights in New York, was to blame for a September collision between his recreational device aircraft and an Army helicopter.
|Out of sight
The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday also cited the drone operator's failure to see the helicopter because the device was flying so far away it was out of his sight. The drone operator, who wasn't identified in the short report, was in Brooklyn and 2.5 miles away from the device, the NTSB concluded. The crash happened just offshore of Staten Island.
At the time of the accident, the United Nations General Assembly was meeting and flights in the area by civilian aircraft were prohibited, according to the NTSB. The Federal Aviation Administration also forbids drone operators from flying beyond their line of sight.
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