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Bruce Bennett/Getty ImagesDrones are increasingly venturing into restricted airspace and flying dangerously close to airplanes and helicopters, with the Federal Aviation Administration reporting hundreds of drone incidents during the past six months. Among the incidents catalogued in a new FAA report that runs from Augsut 2015 to January 2016 are several reports by airline pilots of "near misses" with drones. In one incident in November, a helicopter departing the Children's Hospital in Saint Louis had to take evasive action with a 60 degree banking turn to avoid a black, four-propeller drone at 1,400 feet altitude.

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