Accidents
At approximately 10:17 a.m. PST May 1st., an MQ-1 Predator crashed during a routine training mission in an unpopulated area 1 mi. southeast of Cactus Springs. No one was injured. Base first responders have secured the crash site and all appropriate safety measures have been employed. More information
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Yemen's Ansarullah fighters have recovered a Saudi surveillance UAS in the northwestern Yemeni province of Sa'ada. According to Yemeni reports, the Houthi fighters seized the aircraft, which had parachute landed due to a technical fault, while patrolling the area on Friday. Source: Press TV
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Japanese authorities were investigating Wednesday after a small drone laced with traces of radiation was found on the roof of the prime minister's office. No injuries or damage were reported from the incident, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in Indonesia to attend an Asian-African conference. Police said
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A publicity stunt that involved using a consumer quadcopter to deliver vegetables to a restaurant in the Netherlands has literally crashed and burned. The De Zwann Michelin-starred restaurant in Etten-Leur, North Brabant in the Netherlands always puts on an exciting publicity stunt to mark the beginning of the asparagus season.
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George Morse’s company, Failure Analysis Service Technology, based in Prescott, Ariz., specializes in the analysis of aviation mishaps, foreign-object damage in particular. Morse himself has done more than 4000 engine investigations, most the result of ingestion of nuts or bolts or other runway detritus rather than birds.So he’
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An unmanned Japanese Ground Self-Defence Force surveillance aircraft crashed on a training range in Oita Prefecture late last year in an accident that was never disclosed publicly. The incident came to light after a recent Asahi Shimbun interview with the Japanese Defence Ministry. According to ministry officials, on Nov. 13,
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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
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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
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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
VTOL
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
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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
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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