A 'flying saucer' came within a few hundred feet of an Airbus A319 passenger jet as it descended into London Gatwick, according to an official safety report from the UK Airprox Board that details one of several recent close calls between airliners and unidentified aerial objects.
Investigates near‑misses in UK airspace, released anonymised accounts from airline and military pilots who reported disc‑shaped craft and suspected drones passing alarmingly close to their aircraft. The incidents, recorded in separate locations and involving different types of jets, underline how little stands between a routine approach to a major London airport and a potentially catastrophic mid‑air collision when an unidentified object strays into the flightpath.
