Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

Reader suggestions and comments are welcome... and if particularly intriguing, timely, or poignant, may themselves become future Quotes of the Day.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"So what we did in our analysis is go directly to the sighting itself, and when we looked at those ones that where the person reporting the sighting, in their determination, called it either a near miss or indicated they had to take some kind of evasive action, quite honestly there's a large number of sightings in there that couldn't even be termed a near encounter of any kind, because it wasn't even identified clearly as being an aircraft."

Source: Richard Hanson, AMA Director of Government And Regulatory Affairs, during a House Aviation Subcommittee hearing on UAV Safety.

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