When drones fall from the sky

[Gnarly Gnu]

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More than 400 large U.S. military drones have crashed

 

in major accidents around the world since 2001, a record of calamity that exposes the potential dangers of throwing open American skies to drone traffic, according to a year-long Washington Post investigation.

 

 

 

[insert Jabiru joke here .... you just know they'll come]

 

 

 

Not sure what defines a 'major accident' in the context of people not being injured in a machine malfunction. Maybe if you are paying for the drone? The potential risk is clear though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[storchy neil]

don't put up facts cause :cheezy grin:some one will not under stand

 

make a pridiction ok neil:tongue in cheek:

 

 

[Gnarly Gnu]

A $3.8 million Predator carrying a Hellfire missile cratered near Kandahar in January 2010 because the pilot did not realize she had been flying the aircraft upside-down.

 

Maybe some instructors here can relate to this scenario.

 

 

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More than 400 large U.S. military drones have crashed

 

in major accidents around the world since 2001, a record of calamity that exposes the potential dangers of throwing open American skies to drone traffic, according to a year-long Washington Post investigation.

 

 

 

[insert Jabiru joke here .... you just know they'll come]

 

 

 

Not sure what defines a 'major accident' in the context of people not being injured in a machine malfunction. Maybe if you are paying for the drone? The potential risk is clear though.

 

 

 

A very relevant thought since our population is about 10%of the US

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Gnarly Gnu]

Another good article: Drones are fun, until one hits you in the face.

 

There have been numerous reports of injuries, even fatalities, caused by loss of control of an sUAV and some pretty harrowing images can easily be found online. Reported cases include a bridegroom who was struck in the face by a quadcopter flown by an adventurous

 

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, and the crashing of a hexacopter into the grandstand at

 

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, injuring five. The second half of 2013 was particularly bad, with fatalities in Texas, Korea and Brazil and the horrendous case of a 19-year-old who

 

died instantly

 

in a Brooklyn park when the blades of his radio controlled aircraft struck his head and neck.

 

 

 

 

[bexrbetter]

http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx

[eightyknots]

A $3.8 million Predator carrying a Hellfire missile cratered near Kandahar in January 2010 because the pilot did not realize she had been flying the aircraft upside-down.

Maybe some instructors here can relate to this scenario.

I wonder if the missile exploded on impact? ...or was it captured by the Kandahar crowd and pointed back in the direction it came from for 'recycling'?

 

 

[dazza 38]

I wonder if the missile exploded on impact? ...or was it captured by the Kandahar crowd and pointed back in the direction it came from for 'recycling'?

I reckon she would have received the rough end of a pineapple for that one.

 

 

[flyerme]

Note- tailem bend topics( tailem bend s.a news letter) this month has an ad for a missing drone! It's a huge 2 meter wing span motor glider flown via them camera goggles system ( camera fitted in plane pilot where's monitor goggles) went missing near tailem bend area..

 

Hmm right near Brooklands air park and tailembend VOR .. It's also posted on the wall at tailem bend food land. ( missing. Rc plane)