Andrew Hesser, and three key crew members for allowing a BQM-74 target drone to crash into the side of their ... Harry Harris had stern words for both the ship’s skipper and the crew controlling ...

As word spread, it left drone manufacturers ... that their drones had crashed at 10 times the rate of manned Army aircraft over the previous nine months. As bad as that number sounded, the ...

Unmanned aircraft crash. In fact, they crash a lot—though ... That is, the design of the systems that operators use to fly the drones are so bad that they invite accidents.

When hovering without any control input, the drone has a certain cubic volume (about two meters on a side) that it will try to stay within no matter how bad the wind happens to be; in several ...

Last year, though, set a record for Air Force drone crashes. All told, 20 large Air Force drones were destroyed or badly damaged in accidents last year, the worst annual toll ever, according to a ...

The crashes, which destroyed both aircraft ... According to documents from the National Transportation Safety Board, bad readings from the drones' onboard lidar sensors led the drones to believe ...

The twin crashes of Amazon’s MK30 drones in Oregon occurred just minutes apart on Dec. 16, when both aircraft abruptly shut off mid-air at an altitude of more than 200 feet and slammed into the ...