Heathrow plane strike 'not a drone incident'
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Transport secretary tells MPs that incident reported by BA pilot on 17 April is now not thought to have involved drone
A passenger plane believed to have been struck by an unknown object as it approached Heathrow is now not thought to have been hit by a drone, the government has said.
The pilot of a British Airways flight from Geneva reported a suspected collision with a drone on 17 Aprilbut the transport secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, told MPs on Thursday that experts believed this was not "a drone incident".
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