India, June 29 -- The Federal Aviation Administration is checking out a possible drone strike involving a JetBlue Airways passenger plane as it was nearing New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. This could be one of the first confirmed cases of a drone hitting a U.S. commercial airliner.
The pilot of JetBlue Flight 948, an Airbus A321 coming from Las Vegas, reported hitting a drone at about 3,000 feet while making its final approach around 7:15 a.m. local time.
Air traffic control recordings picked up the pilot informing the controllers that the object hit the plane just above the cockpit. Fortunately, the aircraft landed safely at JFK six minutes later.
JetBlue mentioned that passengers got off the plane normally, and the air...