United Airlines flight reports drone strike on approach to San Diego

On a Wednesday afternoon over San Diego, a United Airlines flight descending from San Francisco encountered what its pilots believed to be a drone at 3,000 feet — a collision that, while leaving passengers and crew unharmed, places in sharp relief a tension as old as shared space itself: who belongs where, and who decides. The skies above our cities have quietly become contested territory, where the democratization of flight through unmanned technology now brushes against the ordered world of commercial aviation. Regulators have long anticipated this reckoning; the question now is whether this