Drone sightings on the rise in Mass., pilots fear collisions with planes
In mid-June, the pilot of a small aircraft on its final approach to Logan International Airport spotted a red-and-black object whizzing through the sky.
It was a drone, and it missed colliding with the plane by just 25 yards, The Boston Globe reports.
Massachusetts had the seventh-highest total of reported drone encounters in the U.S., with 17 of those reports to the Federal Aviation Administration made from Boston, according to the Globe.
Aviation officials are concerned about the possibility of drones interfering with flight paths, potentially leading to disaster. Across the country, last year’s drone report total of 238 had more than tripled by August 2015, to 721.
While there are no confirmed collisions between drones and planes, a report from earlier this month showed that most sightings came near airports and higher than 400 feet in the air, where drone flight is prohibited.
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