(Bloomberg) – The number of reported safety incidents involving civilian drones is on track to rise dramatically again this year, with almost as many in the first nine months of 2017 as for all of last year.
Through September, the Federal Aviation Administration received 1,688 reports of drones flying in restricted airspace or otherwise appearing to violate rules.
That compares with 1,754 last year and 1,210 the prior year.
In 2014, the year the administration first began collecting data, there were only 236 reported incidents.
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