2 airliners have 100-foot near miss with drone above New York (JFK)

CNN ^ | August 1, 2015 | Joshua Berlinger

[mware]

Agreed

Folks like you who are responsible and use common sense are not the problem. It's the people flying them near airports and such that I worry about.

[Twinkie]

That’s just it. With these drones becoming eventually as ubiquitous as cellphones; the danger to commercial airliners will be a given. - Attempting to enact “laws” to “control” them is a laugh.

[DoughtyOne]

In life it's the one or two idiots who ruin it for everyone else.


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[JimSEA]

Isn’t that the truth. Like they used to “Someone will always spoil a good thing”. Most of us are responsible but the majority screw it up

[dfwgator]

“Here’s a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. They say that if 2 planes almost collide, it’s a near miss. Bullshhhhhh, my friend. It’s a near hit! A collision is a near miss.
[WHAM! CRUNCH!]
“Look, they nearly missed!”
“Yes, but not quite.”

-George Carlin

[RansomOttawa]

I guess not every headline writer got the memo that a "near miss" means they hit. (sigh)

"Near miss" doesn't mean "nearly miss," it means "missed when they were nearby." Everybody but grammar pedants understands this.

[MaxMax]

I agree. I might tolerate sitting between two skinny Freepers.

[Larry Lucido]

[CodeToad]

I didn’t like his politics but the mans was a genius. We saw him on his last show tour and he was one of the best I had seen. Cosby was boring, but Carlin killed.

[moviefan8]

This is another case where people abuse things that will lead to elimination of those things.

I am not sure if this makes sense. I am a little under the weather today.

We will lose our rights to have a drone because of these idiots.

[Hawthorn]

>> I guess not every headline writer got the memo that a "near miss" means they hit <<

Gotta disagree, in the most respectful of ways. To me, the noun miss is determinative of the phrase's commonsense meaning.

Therefore, I think the phrase simply tells one that although the two objects were so "near" to one another as to make a collision seem likely, in fact there was no collision -- in other words, there was a miss.

Now if I interpret your post correctly, you're reading the phrase as if it says that the two objects "nearly missed" or "almost missed" one another. That's not an unreasonable interpretation, I guess, in terms of pure logic. But as we know, logic doesn't always rule in matters of idiomatic language. So I believe standard usage and plain meaning are on my side.

[lewislynn]

So two planes hit a drone above JFK?