A Drone Near JFK Just Exposed America's Biggest Aviation Blind Spot
If you fly into or out of a major US airport, the airspace you assume is tightly controlled has a gap that current law and technology don't fully cover. A JetBlue flight from Las Vegas landed safely at JFK after its pilots reported a suspected drone strike on final approach—and the word 'suspected' is doing a lot of work, because nobody has confirmed what actually hit the plane.
Bottom Line
A safe landing and an open investigation mean this is a warning flare, not a disaster. The story isn't that a drone definitely hit a plane—that's unconfirmed—it's that America's busiest airspace still lacks a reliable way to detect, identify, and stop small drones near approach paths, and to hold operators accountable when something goes wrong.
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