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Expressed frustration that their own aircraft can't get close. today as crews mopped up firefighters told us there were reports of five drones total. >> two of the drones pursued our lead plane. one underneath one actually flying over the top. it could kill them. >> reporter: eventually the drones landed and pilots were cleared to come back. but as you can see from drop after drop the damage was already done. do you think that these drones prevented firefighters from saving some of these cars? >> well it definitely contributed to it. you know for us here on the san bernardino national forest i...

>> i think that would be very difficult because you would have to either drop down to such a low altitude that people would see you. >> even if it went down to 5,000 feet, as one of the malaysian newspapers suggested is, radar could still detect that aircraft. >> and people would hear and see you and the fuel burn would be much higher. it would limit their distance. >> that's a hard thing, a commercial airliner, trying to blend in that way. >> you'd have to be a very good pilot. it might set off t-cass alerts on the lead plane. a very challenging event. >> richard, for a pilot to do that, to b...

During a recent air show. team studded grounded since the may 22 incident in virginia. nbc's jim miklaszewski has more. >> reporter: the u.s. military's premiere precision flying team. the blue angels. crowds for more than 60 years. it all came close to crashing down p.m. it happened last sunday in virginia. perforation, the wind tips of the f-18 jets appeared almost touched. at 600 miles per hour, the slightest mistake could be catastrophic. at this point four of the blue angels prepared to execute a traditional crowd pleaser. the kind barrel roll break. as they had done hundreds of times bef...

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