A new rule, published Aug. 25 in the Federal Register, requires the reporting of accidents involving unmanned aircraft in which a person is killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft has a maximum gross takeoff weight of 300 pounds or greater and sustains substantial damage to the NTSB, according to a story at AOPA.org.
The report quotes Craig Spence, AOPA’s vice president of operations and international affairs: “As pilots, we rely on the principle of ‘see and avoid’ for safe operations in the National Airspace System. Because unmanned aircraft systems currently lack the necessary technologies to operate safely in this environment, AOPA continues to express concern about the potential collision hazard of UAS. This data will help the industry better understand how the systems operate and what goes wrong in an accident or incident.”
