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on friday morning. the jet had to climb 200 feet. the drone was flying about 2700 feet, way too high way too close to an airport. right now the faa is trying to figure out who is responsible. let's bring in analyst from boston a former assistant secretary for the department of homeland security. let me ask you, i mean officials say a drone getting sucked into a jet's engines could have catastrophic consequences. what do you make of that? >> i think that's absolutely right. just the number of drones and people have this image of what a drone is they think it's a missile going off in afghanistan afghanistan, drone means unmanned aerial instrument so anyone can get one of them. a drone in an engine hitting the wrong part of an airplane whether a large commercial plane or small one, would cause significant damage. so it's terrifying incidents because they are so avoidable.