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Re:Drone hits British Airways plane approaching Heathrow Air... by tptacek on Sunday April 17, 2016 @05:16PM (#11516348)
People live near airports. You can't simply vaporize a drone; whatever you do to arrest it in the sky is going to cause drone pieces to hurtle towards the earth.

Same goes for jamming them.

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Re:Drone hits British Airways plane approaching Heathrow Air... by JshWright on Sunday April 17, 2016 @08:29PM (#11517019)
A lot of modern UAV platforms have a 'failsafe' mode if they lose the transmitter signal.
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Re:Drone hits British Airways plane approaching Heathrow Air... by goodplay on Sunday April 17, 2016 @09:53PM (#11517262)
which might include flying across the run way to the coordinates it took off from.

As others have pointed out, the last thing you want is some object flying over the airport that is not under your control.

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Re:Drone hits British Airways plane approaching Heathrow Air... by thrownaway2424 on Sunday April 17, 2016 @05:23PM (#11516381)
>>> You can't simply vaporize a drone <<<

Challenge accepted.

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