South Korea has tentatively concluded that two unidentified UAS recently found near the border with North Korea are from the communist nation, officials said, a finding that raises questions about Seoul’s air defence amid heightened military tensions in the region. Continue reading
Category Archives: Accident Reporting
Rescue Helicopter in Near Miss with UAS in Australia
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is investigating an incident which happened at around a thousand feet as a Bell 412 Hunter Rescue helicopter retuned to its Newcastle base on Saturday night. Continue reading
Australia Transport Safety Bureau on Crop Duster Near Miss with UAS
Late last year a Sensefly eBee 178 UAS was carrying out aerial surveying work over Iluka’s Echo mineral sands mines when it had a near collision incident with a crop duster.
Israeli UAS Crashes in Gaza
An unmanned aircraft of the sort Israel uses for surveillance and missile strikes in Gaza crashed in the south of the territory early on Tuesday, sources on both sides said. Continue reading
Germany Reports High Rate of UAS Losses
According to Israel’s Homeland Security, the German Army has reported a record attrition rate of UAS in the last decade. Continue reading
QF-4 Unmanned Aerial Target Accident Report Released
A defective pitch-rate controller led to a QRF-4C Phantom II crash just eight seconds after take-off from Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., July 17, 2013, according to an Air Combat Command Accident Investigation Board report just released. Continue reading
Customs and Border Protection Predator Fleet Flies Again
Effective Feb. 7, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) lifted the temporary grounding of its entire Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) fleet — an order that was put in place on Jan. 24 “out of an abundance of caution” following an Office of Air and Marine flight crew having had to ditch one of CBP’s multi-million dollar Predators in the Pacific Ocean at about 11:15 PM PST” on Jan. 27. Continue reading
Afghans Stone Downed Predator
Apparently this UAS has crashed three weeks ago.Afghan officials said on Saturday that it went down in the town of Shindand, but a Taliban spokesman claimed that the militants shot down the aircraft during an airstrike against their stronghold on Friday. Continue reading