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On January 4, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said that one of its drones crashed in the northern part of the Palestinian West Bank region. A statement by the IDF said that the drone, a Skylark, was on a reconnaissance mission when it fell out of the sky for as-yet-unknown
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Metro services were briefly halted on the Magenta line in Delhi on last Sunday after a drone belonging to a medical supply company in Noida fell on tracks. The police quickly recovered the drone belonging to a pharma firm and started an investigation. Later on, the services resumed, officials said.
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At about 7:55 a.m. on Dec. 6 on Holloman Air Force Base an MQ-9 Reaper crashed on the runway during takeoff. Officials with the 49th Wing say no injuries were reported and base access was not restricted. The cause of the crash is under investigation. Holloman Air Force
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A US Air Force RQ-4 Block 40 Global Hawk crashed at approximately 7:00 a.m. Central Standard Time today in a rural field near Gilby, North Dakota. The aircraft was from Grand Forks Air Force Base and was returning to base at the time of the accident. The RQ-4
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A drone struck a skyscraper in the World Trade Center complex and became lodged on the building’s facade Monday afternoon, landing the operator in custody. The gizmo crashed into 7 World Trade Center around 5 p.m. and ended up wedged between window panels outside the third floor of
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At approximately 7:35 a.m. on July 10th, the X-56B, a remotely piloted experimental aircraft, experienced an incident shortly after takeoff from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The aircraft encountered an anomaly in flight causing a hard impact to the ground and destroyed the vehicle.
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The Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom just announced that a serious incident occurred near Helsinki Airport on 13 May 2021, when a drone flew close to an aircraft wing when the aircraft was taking off. The agency considers the occurrence a serious incident and stresses that anyone operating a
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An air ambulance helicopter came within yards of colliding with a drone over London as it flew a critically-ill patient to hospital. The remote-controlled craft hovered just below the chopper as it circled above the Royal London Hospital, a report has revealed. The UK Airprox Board, which investigates near misses,
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An MQ-9 suffered a catastrophic fuel leak while flying in an undisclosed area of Africa, prompting the crew to crash the Reaper as hard as possible into the ground to avoid a successful recovery of the aircraft, according to an Air Force investigation released June 4. The MQ-9, tail number
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A plane believed to be carrying one of Britain's most senior civil servants on a mission to protect the vaccination programme came within 100 yards of a potentially catastrophic crash with a suspected drone. The BAE-146 jet – an RAF aircraft used by members of the Royal Family and
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About 1,500 elegant tern eggs were abandoned by their parents after a drone crashed on a nesting island at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach, California. Every April, thousands of elegant terns migrating from Central and South America nest in the sands of the Bolsa Chica Ecological
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Watch the brand new DJI FPV drone crash right into the exploding lava fountain of Iceland's newest volcano - Fagradalsfjall in the Geldingadalir valley. This unique HD footage provides a rare view right into the volcano's caldera and lava fountain during one of its geysir-like eruptions.