United flight reports possible drone strike near San Diego at 3,000 feet

No reported casualties or injuries mentioned, though potential for serious harm exists given the flight phase and altitude.

As a United Airlines flight descended toward San Diego International Airport, its pilot reported what appeared to be a drone at 3,000 feet — a moment that distills a broader tension of our age: the collision, literal and figurative, between the democratization of technology and the ancient human need for safe passage through the skies. No one was hurt, but the encounter adds another entry to a growing ledger of incidents that ask whether our rules and systems have kept pace with the tools we have placed in so many hands. The sky, once governed by scarcity, now must be governed by law — and tha

United flight reports possible drone strike near San Diego at 3,000 feet

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