Transportation,
Administrative/Regulatory
May 5, 2017
Who controls low-altitude airspace?
The confusion stems from the FAA's position that the notion it does not control airspace below 400 feet is a "myth."
Jared Greenberg
Associate
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
3161 Michelson Dr
Irvine , CA 92612
Phone: (949) 451-3819
Fax: (949) 475-4691
Email: jgreenberg@gibsondunn.com
Stanford Univ Law School
On March 21, a federal judge in the Western District of Kentucky dismissed, on jurisdictional grounds, a federal lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment to define airspace rights of aircraft operators and property owners. The case, Boggs v Merideth, also known as the "Drone Slayer" case, arose from a landowner shooting down a drone flying 200 feet above his property. The landowner claimed the drone was trespassing and invading his privacy, while the pilot asserted he was in navigab...
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