REPORTS OF dangerous drone encounters are multiplying. Aircraft crews, security officials and others say they’ve seen many small, unmanned and unmarked aerial vehicles where they do not belong: over airports, 12,000 feet aloft near a JetBlue airliner, above the White House grounds. The military scrambled fighter jets last week after a Cessna pilot spotted a drone in restricted airspace over Washington. Pilots have reported 700 close encounters with drones to the Federal Aviation Administration so far this year, already tripling last year’s total. Some of these reported drones turn out to be something else, such as birds. But the increasing number of stories about small flying objects that could mangle a jet engine intake, disrupt a propeller or smash a windshield is still scary.
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REPORTS OF dangerous drone encounters are multiplying. Aircraft crews, security officials and others say they’ve seen many small, unmanned and unmarked aerial vehicles where they do not belong: over airports, 12,000 feet aloft near a JetBlue airliner, above the White House grounds. The military scrambled fighter jets last week after a Cessna pilot spotted a drone in restricted airspace over Washington. Pilots have reported 700 close encounters with drones to the Federal Aviation Administration so far this year, already tripling last year’s total. Some of these reported drones turn out to be something else, such as birds. But the increasing number of stories about small flying objects that could mangle a jet engine intake, disrupt a propeller or smash a windshield is still scary..
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