simply couldn't. it looked. >> time we are getting ready to reopen the runway, there is another drone sighting. but i can't do is put the safeties of passengers at risk, so the airport remains closed. >> they estimate there are more than 1,000 near misses a year between planes and unmanned aircraft, and there have been some collisions, just last week a 737 struck a drone, look at the damage. it is the nose of the get bashed in. remember back in 2009 when u.s. air flight 1549 hit a flock of geese, knocking out both engines, forcing them to land on the hudson river. experts say drones pose an even bigger risk to a jet engine. they are also big enough that a high-speed collision with a plane, as you saw it earlier pierce a whole right in the fuselage. flying a drone near an airport, we should note, leads to five years in prison. >> martha: look at the damage of that plane, very serious