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It's May 12. The school year is winding down. CNNSTUDENT NEWS is starting up a new week ofcoverage. I'm Carl Azuz. Thank you for taking tenminutes for us. Broadly speaking, a drone can beany unmanned aircraft. It could be something themilitary uses to spy on potential terrorists, couldbe the R.C. plane your friend flies on the weekends.The Federal Aviation Administration has a new warning about the dangers of drones, particularly in light of something that happened this March.

It apparently involved a remote controlled plane that someone was flying far higher than the legal limit. It almost caused a catastrophe for a passenger flight headed to Tallahassee Florida.

A near nightmare in the sky: a passenger plane nearly crashes into a camouflage droneflying at 2300 feet, well above the typical altitude for a private drone. The incident in theTallahassee skies involved a U.S. Airways expressed jet flying near the airport.

A remote controlled aircraft 2300.

The first details of the March scare previously not revealed until an FAA official spoke about itThursday in San Francisco.

He said that the U.S. was so close to his jet that he was sure he had collided with it. Thankfully,inspection to the airliner after landing found no damage.

Authorities do not know who flew the drone, but say it could have brought down the plane.

The safety of our passengers and crews are our top priority. U.S. Airways parent companytells CNN tonight in a new statement.We are aware of the publish report alleging an incidentwas one of our express jets and we are investigating.

There have been close calls before. The FBI is still investigating a drone that came within 200feet of an Alitalia flight in New York earlier this year.

We saw a drone, a drone aircraft.

The pilot in that incident can be heard telling air traffic control. And this Monday a smalldrone was found after apparently hitting this building in St.Louis.

In the next five years, the FAA estimates as many as 7500 drones could be flying in the U.S.airspace at any given time. Now, the agency has been working on a plan to safely integratedrones into the airspace so that you don't have accidents with passenger aircrafts. Now, it isillegal for commercial use, although there are some exceptions. As for hobbies, the FAA onlyallows recreational drones to fly up to 400 feet.

Time for the Shoutout. What's the second most populated country in the world? If you thinkyou know it, shout it out. Is it China, India, Russia or the United States? You've got threeseconds, go!

India is home to more than 1.2 billion people and second only to China and population. That'syour answer and that's your Shoutout.