US pilots report surge in drone close calls
As a result of a sales boom, small, largely unregulated remote-control aircraft are clogging airspace, snarling air traffic
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LAST Sunday, a swarm of small rogue drones disrupted air traffic across the country on a scale previously unseen in US skies.
At 8.51 am, a white drone startled the pilot of a JetBlue flight, appearing off its left wing moments before it landed at Los Angeles International Airport. Five hours later, a quadcopter whizzed underneath an Allegiant Air flight as it approached the same runway. Elsewhere in California, pilots of light aircraft reported narrowly dodging drones in San Jose and La Verne.
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