Dumb and Dumber: A Drone Flies Dangerously Close to an A380 During Take Off

Couldn't find a date for when the video was recorded. I also tried to see the registration number on the fuselage but the quality wasn't good enough. Here is the link for the daily flight. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAE702

Surprised that drone didn’t get any wake turbulence from the super. Thought it would have gone through an aeronautical washing machine shortly after the plane passed at that range.

photo taken at muritius on 17/07/2018

I do think it is zoomed in, but looking at the parallax of items around the landscape as the camera moves, one can get a good idea of distance. To judge those distances, from the center of the left (for our view) taxiway to the runway center line is 200M.[as measured on Google Earth] From the extended runway center line to the corner of that dark green patch that extends right into the field is about 300M. The well defined fence boundary to the right (our view) of the runway center line is 175M. I never see the drone get closer to extended runway center line than that fence distance. I would say, 200M or two football fields away. The sifting parallax supports this.

That said, this is a good chance to promote safety. While two football fields is a large zone, had the A380 made a left-hand turnout climb after takeoff it would have been a different situation.