Drone Incidents

Near-misses, crashes, airspace violations, and arrests — when drone flights go wrong.

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An Amazon Prime Air MK30 delivery drone on a painted outdoor launch pad at a UK site, with a worker in an orange high-visibility vest walking behind it carrying a yellow handling bar.

Drone Delivery

Amazon Made 500 Drone Flights. Now It Wants a Whole UK Town

Amazon asked the CAA to fly Prime Air across all of Darlington after 500 flights, against a permission that already allows 100 deliveries a weekday.

Haye KestelooSep 13

A dense flock of European starlings swirling against a purple dusk sky above a tower

Counter-Drone

NATO Jet Scrambled, Vilnius Airport Closed. It Was a Flock of Birds

A NATO jet scrambled and Vilnius airport shut for 38 minutes over a radar contact that turned out to be birds. Poland made the same call eight days ago.

Haye KestelooSep 13

Amazon

Amazon Drone Lands Itself Beside a Baton Rouge Road, Two Months In

An Amazon MK30 set itself down on a Florida Boulevard grass strip Friday, props intact, as storms crossed the parish. Amazon has not said why.

Haye KestelooSep 12

Leipzig-Halle Airport check-in terminal exterior

Leipzig Drone Bomb

Germany Plans To Let Utilities Fight Off Drones After Leipzig Bomb

Germany plans nine-city counter-drone units and a law letting power and water companies actively fend off drones, five weeks after the Leipzig bomb.

Haye KestelooSep 7

Zipline

Zipline Drone Ends Flight On Houston Highway The Way Amazon's Can't

A Zipline delivery drone came down under its parachute onto Highway 6 in Cypress on Friday. No injuries, no damage, no calls to police, and no cause yet.

Haye KestelooSep 5

Aerial view of the Butler Farm Show grounds after the July 13, 2024 Trump rally, the vantage point Thomas Crooks had and the Secret Service did not

Department of Homeland Security

Secret Service Saw Drones Near Obama and Sanders, Then Came Butler

GAO finds the Secret Service logged drone incidents in 2015, 2016 and 2021, changed no civilian drone policy and never wrote down why. Then came Butler.

Haye KestelooSep 4

DJI Mavic 4

DJI Mavic 4 Pro Shot Out of Alabama Sky, Shooter Risks 20 Years

A gunshot brought down a real estate photographer's DJI Mavic 4 Pro camera drone over Athens, Alabama. Federal law calls that destroying an aircraft.

Haye KestelooSep 2

The nose of an Antonov An-124-100M cargo plane on an airport apron, with the words Be Brave Like Kharkiv painted on the fuselage.

Leipzig Drone Bomb

Germany Blames Russia For Leipzig Drone Bomb, Closes Consulate

Germany formally blames Russia for the August 4 explosive drone at Leipzig/Halle Airport and will close the Russian consulate in Bonn on September 18.

Haye KestelooSep 2

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