When a drone came within 100 feet of a descending airplane in late June, police in Glasgow felt a clear sense of deja vu.
For years, the news media has been filled with stories of rogue drones veering into private airspace and coming dangerously close to commercial airliners. This time, the event happened over the skies of Scotland, when the pilot of a plane approaching the runway of Glasgow’s Paisley Airport saw and reported an illegally operated unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) just in the nick of time.