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The crash occurred at 9.20 am on Tuesday morning. Due to an engine problem on takeoff, the aircraft failed to gain height, according to Jürg Nussbaum, chief of Air Force communications. Continue reading
News is just leaking out that on August 22, a Chinese secret unmanned aircraft crashed in Hebei Province, North China. The local police force blockaded the crash zone, but some local villagers took this photo before the arrival of law-enforcement personnel. Continue reading
Local fighters say that they have shot down a suspected United States operated unmanned aircraft in the south of Somalia near the capital, Mogadishu. Continue reading
The three recent unmanned aircraft crashes brings the total of large UAS crashes for 2011 to thirteen, and the total for 2010 & 2011 to thirty-six, according the Drone Crash Database maintained by Drone Wars UK.
An American unmanned surveillance aircraft crashed in south-western Pakistan on Thursday evening, near a paramilitary base close to the Afghan border.
Officials with the 49th Wing of the US Air Force announced that a remotely piloted MQ-9 Reaper sustained damage during landing at Holloman Air Force Base at approximately 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, August 24.
A unmanned aircraft of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has come down in southern Afghanistan due to a technical failure, the alliance said on Saturday.
Security officials in Somalia say that a UAS crashed into a house near the Libyan Embassy in the capital, Mogadishu, on Friday, but they did not provide details about who was operating the unmanned aircraft.