A Flawed FAA Drone App Risks Midair Collisions

Air ambulances across the U.S. are under increasing threat from consumer drones, and a safety app that omits some heliports isn’t helping

Mark Harris
OneZero
Published in
7 min readMay 1, 2019

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EEarly in the morning of Independence Day 2018, Laura Smith lost control of her blue Dodge pickup while towing a Cadillac on a remote stretch of Interstate 84…

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Mark Harris
OneZero
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Mostly British, mostly tech journalist reporting on the US from mostly rainy Seattle