The number of near-miss incidents between civilian drones and commercial aircraft at airports is raising questions over passenger safety in Europe.
Earlier this week, a Lufthansa plane almost collided with a drone near Warsaw's Chopin international airport, reported Reuters.
Officials said the remotely-controlled drone passed within 100 metres of the commercial airliner. Over 100 passengers were on board.
The biggest risk is that the drone gets sucked into one of the engines...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.