Unknown drone has crashed in a remote area in South-Western Somalia as cause of the crash is still unclear. Continue reading
Category Archives: Accident Reporting
RQ-11 Crashes in Colorado Springs Garden
Ronald 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
MQ-1 Predator Crash on Nevada Training Range
At approximately 10:17 a.m. PST May 1st., an MQ-1 Predator crashed during a routine training mission in an unpopulated area 1 mi. southeast of Cactus Springs. Continue reading
Ansarullah Fighters Recover Saudi UAS in Sa’ada
Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters have recovered a Saudi surveillance UAS in the northwestern Yemeni province of Sa’ada. Continue reading
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.