Is that true? I had a circle of friends 10-15 years back who worked in maintenance for Qantas, and I heard about cleanups and repairs from birdstrike often enough to remember it.<p>I have an uninformed opinion that collisions are not spectacularly uncommon, nor spectacularly serious. I wonder if the magnitude of risk increase we&#x27;re talking about (by allowing drone operation under current rules, which this incident was not...) exceeds, say, allowing smokers (with their increased risk of coronary problems) to be commercial pilots?