Haye Kesteloo · Drone Incidents
UPS Pilot Reported A Drone At 5,000 Feet. It Was A Bird.
A UPS crew told ATC they hit a drone or balloon at 5,000 feet. UPS confirmed a bird. Why drone is now the first word pilots reach for.
Haye Kesteloo
Haye Kesteloo is the Editor in Chief and Founder of DroneXL.co, where he covers all drone-related news, DJI rumors and writes drone reviews, and of EVXL.co, for all electric vehicle news. Haye can be reached at haye @ dronexl.co or @hayekesteloo. Also on LinkedIn, Muck Rack, Instagram and YouTube.
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Louisiana
Prison Drone Flew $31,000 of Meth Back to Its Launch Site
A Grant Parish deputy found the drone on the ground with the meth still strapped to it. A dying battery had flown it home, and two Texas men are in jail.
Drone Delivery
Dexa Takes Its FAA-Certified Drone Airline To TechCrunch Disrupt
Dexa, the Dayton drone delivery operator with a Part 135 certificate, made TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield 200 and pitches at Disrupt in October.
Amazon
Amazon Brought a Drone to a Car Show. Tracy Got No Comment Period
Amazon displayed its MK30 at a Tracy car show before launch. The FAA has published no environmental assessment for the site, and no comment period opened.
Drones for Good
Two Drones Flew a Rope to a Climber on a 10-Inch Ledge at Night
Squamish Search and Rescue flew a floodlight drone and a line-delivery drone to get a roped-out climber off the Stawamus Chief. Here is how it worked.
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.
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.
China
Beijing Bans Owning A Drone, Then Offers To Buy Yours Back
Beijing bans drone possession citywide on November 15, voiding the May registration deal and paying owners subsidies to sell at designated buyback sites.
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