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April 22, 2025

Drones pose increasing risk to airliners near major US airports

  • Reports of near misses involving drones have spiked in recent years.
    • By AARON KESSLER and MICHAEL BIESECKER
    Associated Press

    WASHINGTON — A commercial airliner was on final approach to San Francisco's international airport in November when the crew spotted a drone outside the cockpit window. By then it was too late “to take evasive action,” the pilots reported, and the quadcopter passed by their windshield, not 300 feet away.

    A month earlier, a jetliner was flying at an altitude of 4,000 feet near Miami's international airport when its pilots reported a “close encounter” with a drone. In August, a drone came within 50 feet of clipping the left wing of a passenger jet as it departed Newark International Airport.


     
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