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A US military drone has been shot down by an Iranian missile near to the country's airspace. Unnamed US officials quoted by Reuters and AP news agencies said the intelligence drone was downed in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz, south of Iran. This contradicts reports by
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Boeing and its subsidiary Aurora Flight Science’s unmanned passenger air vehicle (PAV) prototype crashed June 4 during its fifth test flight in Manassas, Virginia, Aurora spokeswoman Luisa Guerra confirmed to AIN last week at the Uber Elevate Summit in Washington, D.C. Guerra said the crash is under investigation
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A U.S. MQ-9 unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) was shot down by the Yemeni Air Defense Force, an ally of the Houthis, while it was conducting a sortie over the western province of al-Hudaydah, where a UN-sponsored ceasefire is implemented. The Houthis media wing released a
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To address a growing need for reporting airborne safety hazards, helicopter pilots now have a new website that allows for fast and easy reporting of near misses and other in-flight safety events. The HAI Aviation Reporting Program (HARP) was developed by the association’s Operations Department specifically for helicopter
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The RQ-7B Shadow unmanned aircraft system missing since approximately 10 a.m. Friday, April 19, was reportedly located by Pima County Sheriff's Department at 3:47 p.m. today in a rural area of Pima County and recovery operations are underway. Civil Air Patrol, Cochise County Sheriff&
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A British Army Watchkeeper drone stalled itself and crashed into the sea on a bad weather flight test, military investigators have said – though most of the wreckage was never found. The unmanned aircraft, tail number WK042, fell from the sky in February 2017 while trialling a new ice detection system.
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An Airbus Zephyr testing out a way to deliver internet services to remote communities has reportedly crashed in the Kimberley, Western Australia. The drone, part of an initiative dedicated to helping the social media giant become a global internet service provider, was supposed to demonstrate Facebook’s High Altitude Pseudo-
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A Russian Granat-2 unmanned aircraft was shot down Ukraine, according to Ukrainian Joint Forces Operation (JFO) press center. On January 23, servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine spotted an unidentified unmanned aerial vehicle in Ukrainian airspace, according to a JFO’s statement. After identified, enemy unmanned aircraft was
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A drone carrying a blood sample has fallen into Lake Zurich during the test phase of a medical deliveries programme. No-one was hurt, but divers did not manage to recover the drone on Friday and the cause of the accident was not known. The drone was carrying a non-
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The UK Airprox Board, sponsored jointly, and funded equally, by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and the UK Military Aviation Authority (MAA)., issues monthly statistics of near misses (Airprox) incidents in the UK. The latest figures published for 2018 show a continued rise of incidents involving drones and civil
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The ATSB is investigating the collision with terrain involving an Insitu X200 ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS) near Woleebee Creek, Queensland, on 9 January 2019. The UAS was being used for aerial survey. The pilot reported that soon after launch, at about 600 ft above the ground, the UAS displayed
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An MQ-1B Predator was lost while supporting a combat mission in the US Central Command area of responsibility on Sept. 4, 2017, after the satellite link connecting the mission control element to the aircraft failed and airmen were not able to re-establish contact, according to an abbreviated accident