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The British Army almost brought down a troop-carrying RAF helicopter when one of its own drones flew within 60ft of the giant aircraft, a report found. The £15million Merlin vehicle and metre-long Desert Hawk surveillance drone should have been flying in their own restricted areas. But they came close to crashing during a massive military training exercise, as crews blamed map-reading errors and a dispute over airspace for the near catastrophe. Continue reading
Severe turbulence and a turbocharger failure led to the crash of an MQ-1B Predator high in the mountains north of Jalabad, Afghanistan, June 25, 2014, according to an Air Combat Command Abbreviated Accident Investigation Board report released on January 8th. Continue reading
FOX5 Vegas – KVVU
About 50 dignitaries gathered in the desert for a demonstration flight of Sensurion Aerospace’s flagship Magpie unmanned aerial vehicle collectively gasped as it crashed seconds after a company executive launched the 5-foot aircraft.
At approximately 8:45 a.m. PST on Dec. 11, 2014, an MQ-9 Reaper crashed during a routine training mission in an unpopulated area approximately 1 mile east of Creech Air Force Base, Nevada.
A computer that freezes might lose a document. A drone that malfunctions might fly away. As consumer drones take off, the burgeoning industry is struggling to overcome a problem known as “flyaways,” when devices go rogue and fly off from their users. Continue reading
The raging debate over drones aims to keep the machines safely away from airplanes and tall buildings, but now there’s a new concern: hot air balloons. Hot air balloon are, but their very nature, volatile and vulnerable, especially to an inexperienced drone pilot.
A passenger plane had a near miss with a drone as it landed at Heathrow, in the first such incident recorded at Britain’s biggest airport. The incident involved an Airbus A320, which can carry up to 180 passengers, and was rated by investigators as among the most serious near-collisions.
A Life Flight helicopter pilot avoided a catastrophe, when a drone nearly collided with the chopper as it flew above the Schuylkill County Joe Zerbey Airport. Continue reading