An air ambulance service said it has experienced some near-collisions involving drones. Wiltshire Air Ambulance pilots say that the trend of drone collisions is going up and they are seeing more people fly drones over accident sites. During one incident in Bath, they only narrowly avoided a drone as they were coming in to land. Matt Wilcock, chief pilot at Wiltshire Air Ambulance, said: "When you hit one of those [drones] doing 150mph, they will come through the wind screen and they can injure the crew. If you injure the pilot, we all see where that would end." He added: "When we come into landing sites, often what's happening is there's commotion on the ground, there's lights and people want to pop a drone up and have a look at what is going on.
"We come in and, while drones are at 400ft and most aviation traffic is at 500ft, the exception is when we come in to land. "This hasn't happened too often, but the trend is on the up." He added that when coming in to land at an accident site in Bath, his crew suddenly caught something coming against the aircraft. "We realised it was a small drone. "Had we hit that, it could have damaged us."
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