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.

An APr analysis shows drones last year accounted for nearly two-thirds of reported near midair collisions involving commercial aircraft at major U.S. airports. Safety experts such collisions could be catastrophic.

As more drones fly, near-misses with passenger planes have surged, according to an Associated Press analysis. Drones accounted for nearly two-thirds of all reported near-midair collisions involving passenger planes last year.

Authorities in Ukraine say Russian drones have battered the Ukrainian port city of Odesa in a nighttime attack

Ukraine says its air force hit a Russian drone hub, killing operators. The site was used to launch reconnaissance, strike, and FPV drones, it said.