All the headlines from our Drones Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 16 2018 // A helicopter’s crash landing in South Carolina this week may have been triggered by a civilian drone, which would make it the first drone-related crash of an aircraft in the U.S.The incident on Wednesday involved a...
Feb 15 2018 // San Diego, CA, February 15, 2018– The future is here. Drones are buzzing about the skies over construction sites and movie sets, industrial properties and single-family homes, agricultural fields and disaster zones. One...
Feb 14 2018 // A video from a drone that flew within feet of an airliner over Las Vegas and prompted outrage on the internet has spurred three influential U.S. aviation lobbies to call for tighter regulations on hobby drones.Legislation...
Feb 6 2018 // Betterview, a drone-based inspection company specializing in risk and damage assessments, has formed an agreement with Munich Reinsurance America, Inc. (Munich Re) to offer drone imagery, analysis and reporting to Munich...
Feb 5 2018 // School District Ransom“I don’t know legally if a school district can pay a ransom.” — Brian Bridwell, business manager for the Jerome School District in Idaho, talked about the Dec. 2017 predicament...
Jan 30 2018 // Traditional aviation insurance policies are unlikely to address all elements of emerging risks from the rapidly increasing use of drones, according to a report from the International Underwriting Association (IUA).As a...
Jan 19 2018 // Officials at a northern Oklahoma air force base are asking the public to keep recreational drones away from aircraft after a near collision on a training flight.Lt. Col. Eric Schmidt works at Vance Air Force Base. He told...
Jan 8 2018 // Using a drone to spy on neighbors, drop drugs into prisons or harass cows could lead to criminal charges under a new bill Nebraska lawmakers will consider later this year.The measure would impose new safety and privacy...
Jan 3 2018 // The International Drone Racing Association (IDRA) has condensed its liability insurance for drone pilots into a single policy that has no drone limit, no deductibles, and offers worldwide coverage for IDRA members. Drone...
Dec 28 2017 // Authorities say a Southern California couple used a drone to deliver illegal drugs to their customers.Benjamin Baldassarre and Ashley Carroll, of Riverside, were charged with possessing controlled substances for sale and...
Dec 21 2017 // Deliveries by drones took a step closer to being allowed in the U.S. after a federal advisory panel agreed on a framework for allowing law enforcement to routinely track the small devices.The committee’s report to...
Dec 19 2017 // The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it will bar drone flights over seven major U.S. nuclear sites, including Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.The move is the latest in a series of growing...
Dec 15 2017 // A recreational drone operator whose device smashed into a U.S. Army helicopter in September flew undetected into a no-fly zone over New York set up to protect President Donald Trump and the United Nations.The National...
Dec 14 2017 // Starr Companies have formed an agreement with the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) to offer its members insurance coverage for the commercial use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), also known as drones.Coverage includes...
Dec 12 2017 // State lawmakers on Thursday passed legislation that would bar people from operating drones while drunk.The National Conference on State Legislatures says at least 38 states are considering drone legislation this year,...
Dec 8 2017 // 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...
Dec 5 2017 // Law enforcement authorities must play a strong role to ensure there are suitable deterrents in place for those flying recreational drones to prevent danger to passenger aircraft, the International Air Transport Association...
Dec 4 2017 // Conditions are ripe for winter wildfires from the mid-South through the Great Plains thanks to a combination of weather factors, including the climate phenomenon known as La Nina, that have left a lot of dry growth.In...
Dec 4 2017 // Researchers say the ZIP code containing the highest number of registered hobbyist drone users in the country is in Las Vegas. Drone researchers at Bard College in New York analyzed data from the Federal Aviation...
Dec 1 2017 // Forestry officials diverted a surveillance plane from its assigned path because a drone hovered above a northern Arkansas wildfire, prompting them to caution people that airborne efforts to take unique photographs endanger...