How can anybody possibly use this event as proof that drones are bad news?
We all knew that there would eventually be a collision. That is simply a function of number of objects in the air that are not de-conflicted.
We have now had the first event of it's type, and from all reports the aircraft was looked at and then signed off to continue.
This, if anything, suggests that the doom mongers are over-egging things.
Drone hits plane.
Plane not damaged.
Initial indications from an initially miniscule research set suggests that drone strikes do not hurt aircraft. As more collisions happen, I'm quite sure that eventually one will go down an engine. That will be more indicative of whether there is actually a problem.
What we need is not silly hysteria.
We need somebody to test engines against drones like we do against birds.