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RQ-11 Crashes in Colorado Springs Garden

RQ-11.2Ronald Fisk had never seen a drone aside from pictures of the aircraft on the Internet. That changed when one crashed near his backyard on Tuesday. As Fisk was fixing a water heater in his mother-in-law’s front yard connected to his house near downtown Colorado Springs, Fisk turned around to see flashing lights and a camera within the device. He did not hear it come down.

“It looked expensive,” Fisk said. “I couldn’t figure out who owned it, so I wrote my telephone number on a piece of paper because the camera was moving and held it in front of the camera, thinking someone would call me if they wanted it back. That didn’t work out, so I called the police.”

It turned out that a little military drone went on a long journey when Fort Carson controllers lost track of the 4-pound RQ-11 craft and it wandered all the way to Fisk’s neighborhood on Alexander Road between Uintah and San Miguel streets. Continue reading →