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ARTICLE · 13 OCTOBER 2017

Landmark Drone Ruling Grounded In Navigation Safety

Drones, or unmanned aircraft systems, as they are formally known, are a rapidly emerging technology that is already having an impact on various industries, including insurance.

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Drones, or unmanned aircraft systems, as they are formally known, are a rapidly emerging technology that is already having an impact on various industries, including insurance. All stakeholders recognize that a key factor in how this technology develops is how it will be regulated. The answer to that question has now begun to take shape.

The air is a public highway, as Congress has declared. Were that not true, transcontinental flight would subject the operator to countless trespass suits. Common sense revolts at the idea. To recognize such private claims to the airspace would clog these highways, seriously interfere with their control and development in the public interest, and transfer into private ownership that to which only the public has a just claim.

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