Close Call with a Chinese Jet Fighter

A close call between a hobby drone and a Chinese jet fighter was captured by the drone’s camera. The encounter occurred over an unspecified city in China. 

The fighter, which appears to be a Shenyang J-8 “Finback”, does not seem to notice the hovering quadcopter drone as it passes by at a distance of only a few hundred meters, and at virtually the same altitude. For your average driver, a few hundred meters is plenty of distance, but for even a slow moving jet, that’s dangerously close.

Although not easily apparent in the video, this article mentions that the fighter had its landing gear down and was preparing to land.

Source: Popular Mechanics

 

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