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Kathleen Martin
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Los Angeles International Airport, the federal government is rolling out new tech that could better detect objects entering restricted airspace.
The project, called the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Test Bed Program, is the second of its kind nationwide and will begin testing technology designed to detect, track and identify drones entering the airspace of LAX.
"If a drone was to enter the space as you see with the aircraft taking off and landing, and a pilot having to make a quick decision and divert from that flight path that he or she is on -- that could be a huge issue for both the safety of the passengers, the safety of the folks on the ground, it just creates all types of challenges," Keith Jefferies, the federal security director for the Transportation Security Administration at LAX, told ABC-owned station KABC.
Since 2021, TSA has reported 90 visual sightings of drones and 5,200 technical detections within three miles of the perimeter at LAX. This year alone there have been approximately 38 drones visually detected at the airport – including a drone that was reported within 700 feet of an aircraft just before Super Bowl LVI.
Continue reading: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tsa-rolls-program-lax-detect-drones-airports/story?id=88859087
The project, called the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Test Bed Program, is the second of its kind nationwide and will begin testing technology designed to detect, track and identify drones entering the airspace of LAX.
"If a drone was to enter the space as you see with the aircraft taking off and landing, and a pilot having to make a quick decision and divert from that flight path that he or she is on -- that could be a huge issue for both the safety of the passengers, the safety of the folks on the ground, it just creates all types of challenges," Keith Jefferies, the federal security director for the Transportation Security Administration at LAX, told ABC-owned station KABC.
Since 2021, TSA has reported 90 visual sightings of drones and 5,200 technical detections within three miles of the perimeter at LAX. This year alone there have been approximately 38 drones visually detected at the airport – including a drone that was reported within 700 feet of an aircraft just before Super Bowl LVI.
Continue reading: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tsa-rolls-program-lax-detect-drones-airports/story?id=88859087
