{"id":280827,"date":"2026-06-29T03:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T03:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/280827\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T03:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T03:33:21","slug":"hear-it-newark-bound-united-pilot-declares-we-almost-hit-a-drone-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/280827\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear it: Newark-bound United pilot declares, \u201cWe almost hit a drone\u201d \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were frightening moments for not one, but two flights getting ready to land at Newark Liberty International Airport, after two pilots confirmed seeing a drone.<\/p>\n<p>A recording from ATC.com shows the following exchange between the pilot of United Airlines flight 1513, which was heading to Newark from Key West, Florida:<\/p>\n<p>Pilot: We almost hit a drone right there at\u2026 United 1513, about 100 feet below us.<br \/>Tower: Right where you&#8217;re at now?<br \/>Pilot: Exactly.<br \/>Tower: Okay, and United 1513, did you get a look at it?  Do you know the color or any, how much propellers or anything like that, whatever they&#8217;re called?<br \/>Pilot: yeah, it was, it was like circular shape, that was about it. Looked like it was about three feet wide.<\/p>\n<p>Moments after the United flight saw the drone Friday afternoon, a second pilot confirmed its own sighting <br \/>&#8220;one mile to the right of us.&#8221;  The FAA is investigating.<\/p>\n<p>The agency gets more than 100 drone-sighting reports near airports each month.  It says flying a drone so close to aircraft is not only dangerous, but illegal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were frightening moments for not one, but two flights getting ready to land at Newark Liberty International&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,1086,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-280827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newark-airport","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}