Federal transportation investigators say they are unable to identify an airborne object that caused a Toronto-bound plane to take evasive manoeuvres that left two flight attendants with minor injuries. A Porter Airlines flight en route from Ottawa to Toronto on Nov. 14 narrowly avoided a mid-flight collision above Lake Ontario with what flight crew said may have been a drone. The Transportation Safety Board says it has closed its investigation into the incident saying that the description and size of the object doesn’t match that of a drone. They also say the incident occurred too far from shore and too high for it to be a drone. The Dash 8 aircraft with 54 passengers was flying at just under 3,000 metres over Lake Ontario at 7:30 a.m. and was about 55 kilometres from Toronto’s island airport when the near miss occurred.

Source: thestar November 23, 2016 16:48 UTC