Accidents
An MQ-1 Predator was lost Tuesday while flying over northwest Syria, according to a USA defence official. Syria's official news agency claimed the drone was shot down, but the defence official was unable to say exactly how the unmanned aircraft crashed. The Air Force is in the process
Accidents
A Russian drone was shot down over the weekend during heavy fighting against separatist forces near the government-held port city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian forces. The drone was quickly identified as a Russian-designed and manufactured drone designated E08 by its manufacturer, the Enics company, whose logo
Military
Twitter accounts associated with the militant group Islamic State are tweeting out pics of another wrecked Iranian-made drone in Iraq. The tweets, which first appeared early Saturday morning, claim that Islamic State fighters shot down a drone near the city of Samarra, 70 miles north of Baghdad. The pictures show
Accidents
The Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe has lost contact with a Schiebel S-100 Camcopter unmanned air vehicle that was carrying out surveillance missions over Ukraine. The OSCE confirms that on 3 February the Ukrainian Special Monitoring Mission lost contact with the vehicle 16km (10 miles) north of Mariupol
Military
The wreckage of an armed drone turned up in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday near the epicenter of the West African country’s violent Islamist insurgency. A Borno State publication KSM News, published on Facebook that an unmanned drone suspected to be used in the counter-insurgency operation in the Northeast has
Regulations
The Secret Service questioned a Defense Department intelligence agency staffer on Monday after the man reported that he flew the drone that crashed on White House grounds in the early morning hours. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency -- a little-known but enormous agency with a broad mission that ranges from supporting
Accidents
An engine failure led to an MQ-1B Predator crash near Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan, July 14, 2014, according to an Air Combat Command abbreviated accident investigation board report released on Monday . The aircraft was assigned to the 432nd Wing, Creech AFB, Nev., and was under the control of aircrew assigned
Accidents
The person operating the quadcopter that crashed on the White House grounds called the U.S. Secret Service Monday morning to "self-report" their involvement in the incident.The individual was interviewed by Secret Service agents and has been fully cooperative, Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary said in a
Commercial
A witness called Tijuana Municipal Police at 9:50 p.m. Tuesday after watching something fall from the sky and land in the Pueblo Amigo complex parking lot, just southeast of the San Ysidro Border Crossing, authorities said. When police officers arrived they found a broken drone with six packages
Accidents
DJI has issued a firmware update to owners of the brand new Inspire 1, a drone that caught the industry’s attention last year for its filming abilities and futuristic form.Some of the drones’ first users experienced fly aways and crashes, turning what might be an innocuous bug in
Aerial Photography
The DJI Inspire 1 features auto-takeoff and landing, allowing you to start and stop your flights with a simple tap of your controls. The feature recently didn’t work out so well for Mark Taylor of Scottsdale, Arizona, as the video above shows. Marks posted: To all the people who
Accidents
An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) of the Indian Air Force crashed near Akoda hamlet near Chouhatan town in Barmer district on Friday around 2pm. The UAV reportedly crashed over a makeshift house which belonged to a villager, Gangu Singh. The house was damaged but there were no casualties. The Israeli-made