Rogue Drone Crashes Spur Calls for US States to Knock Them Out

While authorities were desperately trying to save people from the deadly Fourth of July floods in Kerr County, Texas, a private drone collided with a search and rescue helicopter and forced it to make an emergency landing, one of the latest incidents in a trend of uncrewed aerial vehicles flying into restricted zones.

In January, a drone crashed into a firefighting aircraft battling the Palisades wildfire in California, according to federal prosecutors, damaging the plane’s wing.

Now state governors and industry experts are calling on Congress to give state and local officials more leeway to control rogue drones, an issue ...