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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
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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The British Army almost brought down a troop-carrying RAF helicopter when one of its own drones flew within 60ft of the giant aircraft, a report found. The £15million Merlin vehicle and metre-long Desert Hawk surveillance drone should have been flying in their own restricted areas. But they came
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Severe turbulence and a turbocharger failure led to the crash of an MQ-1B Predator high in the mountains north of Jalabad, Afghanistan, June 25, 2014, according to an Air Combat Command Abbreviated Accident Investigation Board report released on January 8th. The aircraft and munitions aboard were destroyed on impact,
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British Army operations involving leased Elbit Systems Hermes 450 tactical unmanned aircraft have recorded 11 crashes in the past five years, Armed Forces Minister Andrew Robathan has revealed. "Since 2007 there have been 11 Hermes 450 crashes in Afghanistan," Robathan said in response to a parliamentary question on
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A NATO E-3 Sentry almost hit the tail of the tanker and its flying boom during air-to-air refueling operations. Not only the close proximity of the two large planes was dangerous, but also the evasive maneuver the pilot performs to avoid collision: the AWACS pulls several negative
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A Sky Rider UAS belonging to the IDF made an emergency landing near Nablus on Wednesday after experiencing a technical malfunction. The army has launched an investigation into the incident. The unmanned aircraft was collected by army forces after being lightly damaged. An initial probe found that the UAS made
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Hobby radio-controlled aircraft test magazine Nitro Planes just posted this video compilation of crashes during flight tests. There are times where crashing is inevitable due to a wide variety of causes. We just so happened to catch some of them. Here are a few crashes from 2012. Source: YouTube
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Pictures of the wreckage of a U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator shot down in Turkey were released by the Kurdish Firat News Agency on September 19. The aircraft was shot down by the Kurd rebels on Sept. 18, during an operation against the rebel bastion of Uludere, in