Drones: Risks to Passenger Aircraft Debate

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Department: Home Office

Drones: Risks to Passenger Aircraft

Lord Berkeley Excerpts
Thursday 19th November 2015

(9 years, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon Portrait Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
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I am sure that my noble friend speaks from great experience and my right honourable friend will have taken note of his helpful suggestion.

Lord Berkeley Portrait Lord Berkeley (Lab)
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My Lords, is this not a worldwide—or at least a European—problem, because the Americans can pinpoint bombing in Syria by controlling a drone from somewhere in the States? Who are the CAA and the Government talking to outside the UK? Surely it is much more than a UK problem.