Lufthansa flight has near-miss with drone near Warsaw

Re:Lufthansa flight has near-miss with drone near Warsaw by tbabb on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @04:07PM (#9925361)

This article needs to be more specific about what they mean by "drone". I thought this meant a military drone until about halfway through the article, and I only inferred that it was talking about a quadcopter or hobby RC/UAV plane from context.

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Re:Lufthansa flight has near-miss with drone near Warsaw by jonchang on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @04:11PM (#9925401)

Pro tip: Whenever you read "drone" in a news article you can almost always safely replace it with "unmanned aerial vehicle" with no loss of information. Journalists currently do not make the distinction between (semi-)autonomous military "drones" and hobbyist "drones".

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Re:Lufthansa flight has near-miss with drone near Warsaw by privong on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @04:24PM (#9925509)

> Pro tip: Whenever you read "drone" in a news article you can almost always safely replace it with "unmanned aerial vehicle" with no loss of information.

I don't think that replacement _adds_ any additional information, though. As someone who doesn't follow drone/UAV stuff too closely, your suggested substitution does not really clarify the identity of the subject for me.

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Re:Lufthansa flight has near-miss with drone near Warsaw by ethanbond on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @04:18PM (#9925448)

Does anyone make that distinction in a reliable or consistent way?

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Re:Lufthansa flight has near-miss with drone near Warsaw by baddox on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @04:17PM (#9925442)

Yeah, the article never does specify what type or size of aircraft was involved. The mention of commercial drones for aerial photography makes me assume they're talking about a small remotely-piloted multirotor, but it's not even clear if the article's author knows what type of aircraft was involved in this incident.

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