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This is the second time someone has been seen using a jet pack on a LAX flight path (file photo).
Los Angeles International Airport officials are investigating reports of someone carrying a jetpack on the flight path, the second such report in a month.
An air traffic controller at the US airport radioed a pilot warning that someone with a jetpack was about 6,500 feet (2 km) away. The exact location was unknown. Officials at LAX and the Federal Aviation Administration said they could not comment further.
The FBI is investigating the latest sighting, according to sources familiar with the latest investigation. Federal officials are also investigating an earlier incident in which two commercial pilots said they saw a man in a jetpack flying around the eastern approach to LAX six weeks ago.
In the August 29 incident, the LAX control tower received reports of the jetpack around 6.45pm (local time).
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“Tower, American 1997. We just ran into a guy in a jetpack,” said an American Airlines pilot in a call to the control tower.
“American 1997, okay, thank you. Were they on your left or on your right?” replied the tower operator.
“On the left side, maybe 300 yards or so, above our altitude,” replied the pilot.
“We just saw the guy pass us in the jetpack,” a Jet Blue Airways pilot told the tower, who warned another pilot about the sighting.
“Only in Los Angeles,” the air traffic controller said at one point.
– Los Angeles Times
