The Port Authority announced it will begin test flights next week that will continue on throughout the next 12 months to ship lightweight medical items for a New York City nonprofit health system. The flights will be over the East River, shipping items back and forth between Brooklyn and lower Manhattan. Natalie Migliore, WOR Reporter, hit the streets of NYC to talk to people to get their thoughts on these test flights and if they are concerned for their safety.
“There’s more potential for mishap than anything because there’s too much, just look up, there’s so much going on in this city,” one person who is concerned told Migliore. “That can happen at any time anywhere; there’s always construction in the city, things fall all the time, there’s always strong winds so that’s just a daily hazard living here in New York City,” a person who won’t be paying the drones much attention told Migliore.
One New Yorker thinks the tests are doomed from the start because of who is handling it: “Port Authority is going to take care of it? They’re the worst, they always lose money… they never do anything on time, it’s always a process that fails so I think it’s something that’s going to fail eventually.”
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