Last Updated: November 18, 2023, 02:00 IST
BALTIMORE: The Federal Aviation Administration mentioned Friday that it’ll examine after a drone briefly delayed the Ravens-Bengals recreation in Baltimore on Thursday evening.
Drones are barred from flying inside 3 miles (5 kilometers) of stadiums that seat no less than 30,000 folks throughout occasions together with National Football League and Major League Baseball video games, and within the hour earlier than they begin and after they finish, based on the FAA. The company seems to be into all experiences of unauthorized drone operations and investigates when applicable, it mentioned in an announcement.
When the drone violated the FAA’s short-term flight restriction on Thursday evening, the Maryland Stadium Authority mentioned Maryland State Police and authority officers discovered the operator, who was directed to right away land the drone. The operator was unaware of the restrictions and didn’t have a waiver to function the drone in stadium airspace in the course of the recreation, the authority mentioned in an announcement.
The authority mentioned that in 2021, it put in drone detecting and deterring applied sciences, in addition to indicators reminding followers that it’s a “No Drone Zone.” Stopping play whereas a drone is above a stadium’s seating is an NFL safety requirement, it mentioned.
“We saw them up there, drones. That’s a first,” Ravens coach John Harbaugh mentioned. “I thought I’d seen it all with the Super Bowl, the lights going out at the Super Bowl. Now we got drones flying around.”
The lights went out throughout Baltimore’s victory over San Francisco within the Super Bowl in New Orleans after the 2012 season.
Drone operators who conduct unsafe operations that endanger different plane or folks on the bottom might face fines that exceed $30,000 or have their drone operators’ pilot certificates suspended or revoked, based on the FAA.
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