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A passenger plane about to land at La Guardia Airport avoided a potentially catastrophic collision with a drone over Prospect Park in Brooklyn on Friday morning, authorities said.

Shuttle America Flight 2708 from Washington, DC, was about 10 miles from touchdown when the unmanned craft flew into its path at about 11 a.m., forcing the plane’s co-pilot to pull up about 200 feet to avoid a collision, they said.

“The crew of the Embraer E170 reported that the unmanned aircraft was operating in the vicinity of Prospect Park at an altitude of about 2,700 feet,” said the Federal Aviation Administration.

The co-pilot, who had the controls, and the pilot spotted the red-and-black drone at the same time, and the pilot ordered his partner to pull up.

The co-pilot landed the plane safely with no reported injuries.

The jet has about 80 seats, but it wasn’t immediately clear how many people were on board.

An aviation expert said a collision with the drone could have been disastrous.

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Seems strange to me, I googled the landing airspeed of that plane, it's 200 MPH, amazed the pilot even saw it