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(Bloomberg) – Federal investigators have opened their first probe of a mid-air collision between a civilian drone and a traditional aircraft.

An Army UH-60 helicopter was flying east of Staten Island on Sept. 21 when it collided with a small, consumer Phantom 4 drone, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a press release Thursday.

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