A recreational drone possibly crashed into a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. overhead conductor Sunday evening, causing a power failure that lasted more than an hour in a small section of San Francisco.
Category Archives: Accident Reporting
Drone Camera Crashes Near Skier on Live TV
The world’s best Alpine skier was nearly taken out by a drone camera in the middle of a slalom run recently. Continue reading
Hundreds of ‘Close Encounters’ in US Airspace
A report just released from the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College identified 327 “close encounters” in U.S. airspace from December 2013 to September 2015 in which drones presented a hazard to manned aircraft. Of that total, at least 241 incidents met the Federal Aviation Administration’s definition of a near-collision — two aircraft flying within 500 feet of each other. Ninety of the close encounters involved commercial jets.
Toddler Loses Eye in Drone Accident
A four-year-old child in Roseburg, Oregon at International Drone Day in March 2015.
An 18-month-old boy has lost an eye after being hit by a drone flown by a family friend. Oscar Webb’s eye was sliced in half by a propeller after the operator, Simon Evans, lost control of the drone. Continue reading
MQ-9 Reaper Crashed Near Bagram Air Field
An armed U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone crashed in a remote area near Bagram Air Field last Tuesday night, military officials have revealed. The $14 million remotely piloted aircraft went down at about 7:10 p.m., according to an Air Force statement issued Wednesday.
X-56A Crashes During Flight Test
A US Air Force Research Laboratory-sponsored X-56A unmanned air vehicle crashed Nov. 19 at approximately 9:30 Pacific Daylight Time on Rogers Dry Lakebed test range at Edwards AFB, California. The mishap occurred shortly after takeoff.
Close Call with a Chinese Jet Fighter
A close call between a hobby drone and a Chinese jet fighter was captured by the drone’s camera. The encounter occurred over an unspecified city in China. Continue reading
Sukhoi Su-24 Downed by F-16s on Syrian Border
Turkish fighter jets have shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border, with conflicting claims over whether the downed aircraft violated Turkish airspace. Continue reading