http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36067591
The Economist's Babbage podcast discussed the incident here http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21697197-week-we-discuss-how-keep-drones-away-manned-aircraft-and-talk
A plane approaching Heathrow Airport is believed to have hit a drone before it landed safely, the Metropolitan Police has said. The British Airways flight from Geneva was hit as it approached the London airport at about 12:50 BST with 132 passengers and five crew on board. After landing, the pilot reported an object - believed to be a drone - had struck the front of the Airbus A320. Aviation police based at Heathrow have launched an investigation.
Meanwhile, the fire season has started early in British Columbia this year. After last year's incidents with drones, the BC government and transport Canada have new regulations and penalties ($25,000 in some cases). http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wildfires-northeast-bc-1.3542747?cmp=rss
What is clear is that regulation or even technologies built-in to the drone rely on either the good will of the operator or the the ability to catch offenders.
That is probably too much to ask for. I wonder if it is possible to create geo-fences from the outside thus allowing for temporary situations as well as permanent ones.
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