Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters have recovered a Saudi surveillance UAS in the northwestern Yemeni province of Sa’ada. Continue reading
Category Archives: Accident Reporting
Radioactive Drone on Japan Prime Minister’s Office Roof
Japanese authorities were investigating Wednesday after a small drone laced with traces of radiation was found on the roof of the prime minister’s office. No injuries or damage were reported from the incident, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in Indonesia to attend an Asian-African conference.
Drone Delivering Asparagus to Dutch Restaurant Crashes and Bursts into Flames
A publicity stunt that involved using a consumer quadcopter to deliver vegetables to a restaurant in the Netherlands has literally crashed and burned. Continue reading
Could a Jet Engine Survive Sucking Up a Drone?
George Morse’s company, Failure Analysis Service Technology, based in Prescott, Ariz., specializes in the analysis of aviation mishaps, foreign-object damage in particular. Morse himself has done more than 4000 engine investigations, most the result of ingestion of nuts or bolts or other runway detritus rather than birds.
ScanEagle Crash in Japan Revealed
An unmanned Japanese Ground Self-Defence Force surveillance aircraft crashed on a training range in Oita Prefecture late last year in an accident that was never disclosed publicly.
Predator Down Over Syria
An MQ-1 Predator was lost Tuesday while flying over northwest Syria, according to a USA defence official. Syria’s official news agency claimed the drone was shot down, but the defence official was unable to say exactly how the unmanned aircraft crashed. Continue reading
Russian Drone Downed Over Ukraine
A Russian drone was shot down over the weekend during heavy fighting against separatist forces near the government-held port city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian forces. Continue reading
Iranian-Built UAV Downed Over Iraq
Twitter accounts associated with the militant group Islamic State are tweeting out pics of another wrecked Iranian-made drone in Iraq. The tweets, which first appeared early Saturday morning, claim that Islamic State fighters shot down a drone near the city of Samarra, 70 miles north of Baghdad. The pictures show an Iranian Ababil-3 unmanned aerial vehicle in pieces, with what appear to be stickers of an Iraqi flag on its tail. Continue reading