While authorities were desperately trying to save people from the deadly Fourth of July floods in Kerr County, Texas, a private drone collided with a search and rescue helicopter and forced it to make an emergency landing, one of the latest incidents in a trend of uncrewed aerial vehicles flying into restricted zones.
In January, a drone crashed into a firefighting aircraft battling the Palisades wildfire in California, according to federal prosecutors, damaging the plane’s wing.
Now state govern…