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An MQ-1B Predator remotely piloted aircraft crashed during an Operation Inherent Resolve sortie supporting operations over central Iraq last week, Air Force Central Command officials announced. Controllers lost contact with the RPA during mid-flight at approximately 12:50 p.m. local time on Jan. 7, and were unable
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A recreational drone possibly crashed into a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. overhead conductor Sunday evening, causing a power failure that lasted more than an hour in a small section of San Francisco. A witness, Scott Kurth, was working at his computer when he saw a flash of light and
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The world’s best Alpine skier was nearly taken out by a drone camera in the middle of a slalom run recently. Marcel Hirscher, the four-time reigning World Cup overall champion, was about 10 seconds into his second run of a night slalom in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, when
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A report just released from the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College identified 327 "close encounters" in U.S. airspace from December 2013 to September 2015 in which drones presented a hazard to manned aircraft. Of that total, at least 241 incidents met the
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An 18-month-old boy has lost an eye after being hit by a drone flown by a family friend. Oscar Webb's eye was sliced in half by a propeller after the operator, Simon Evans, lost control of the drone. The toddler, from Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, will
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An armed U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone crashed in a remote area near Bagram Air Field last Tuesday night, military officials have revealed. The $14 million remotely piloted aircraft went down at about 7:10 p.m., according to an Air Force statement issued Wednesday. “There is
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A close call between a hobby drone and a Chinese jet fighter was captured by the drone's camera. The encounter occurred over an unspecified city in China. The fighter, which appears to be a Shenyang J-8 "Finback" , does not seem to notice the hovering quadcopter
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A US Air Force Research Laboratory-sponsored X-56A unmanned air vehicle crashed Nov. 19 at approximately 9:30 Pacific Daylight Time on Rogers Dry Lakebed test range at Edwards AFB, California. The mishap occurred shortly after takeoff. Initial estimates report severe damage to the vehicle. There are no reports
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An unmanned Army surveillance blimp broke loose from its mooring in Maryland and floated over Pennsylvania for hours Wednesday with two fighter jets on its tail, triggering blackouts across the countryside as it dragged its tether across power lines. The bulbous, 240-foot helium-filled blimp eventually came down in
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Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Oct. 19 that a drone shot down by the Turkish air force on Oct. 16 was made in Russia, the online newspaper Vzglyad reports. "The downed drone is Russian-made," Davutoglu told the A Haber television channel. "But Russia has
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An engine turbocharger failure led to the crash of an MQ-1B Predator remote aircraft May 1, 2015, according to an Air Combat Command abbreviated accident investigation board report just released. The aircraft was assigned to the 11th Reconnaissance Squadron, 432nd Wing, Creech Air Force Base, Nevada. At the time