Drones may have to be registered with the US government

[davislane1]

Yep! I was being sarcastic

Should have used an /s tag. You wouldn't believe how many people really think a jet engine will just eat a drone without so much as a hiccup.

 

[Skidmarksdeluxe]

GCs do it and then the pilots do it. Such was the procedure my father described to me while he was flying commercial jets. As he put it, "sometimes [the ground crews] miss things." Same story when flying cargo, as missing something there can drop an aircraft like a stone.

Airlines, as is their duty, have to make things as safe as humanly possible and things have vastly improved over the years but it's very possible that the GC's and pilots miss the same problem. It's seldom that one particular thing brings a passenger aircraft down, it tends to be a multitude of little things all going wrong at the same time.
Now I'm not saying a little recreational drone will bring a large aircraft down, it seems unlikely but the possibility is always there.

 

[davislane1]

Now I'm not saying a little recreational drone will bring a large aircraft down, it seems unlikely but the possibility is always there.

The drones pose the same problem as birds do, but are more dangerous because they are less fragile (no metal parts, GoPros, or carbon fiber in a bird).