accident

  1. J

    Bad luck, bad drone, or bad pilot

    Hi community, I have completed numerous flights with my own, personal drone without incident (phantom 3 advanced) but have at three incidences in not so many flights with my work's drone (phantom 4 professional). This has left me questioning my sanity - do I have bad luck, am I a bad pilot...
  2. M

    Cleaning Dirty Lense Phantom 4

    I recently cleaned out my prop motors and gimbal on my Phantom 4 because I was forced to land on a dirt path and it felt like there was dirt grinding around when I moved the gimbal up and down. I contacted a drone repair store and asked how to safely clean the gimbal. He suggested I rinse it...
  3. Torkild Norway

    Support Ken Heron !

    Ken Heron is a great friend to the drone community. He educates and entertains thousands of people every week with his YouTube videos and his Thursday Night Live program. Unfotunately, Ken was in a car accident and needs our help. He was driving back from visiting his mom when he was hit from...
  4. Marc W Bass

    VIDEO: Crashed My Drone Into An 11th Century Castle!

    So I crashed my DJI Phantom 3 drone... in San Marino... into a medieval castle... from the 11th century! I had been having a lot of issues with my DJI Phantom 3 drone, shaking gimbal shots, DJI GO app disconnecting from the drone and the app not letting me record or take photos. I reinstalled...
  5. NinjaGaz

    So....Yeah...This happened

    Hello :) This situation sucks on so many levels because it was my own stupid fault :/ Basically I was flying my phantom 4 on a river bank and using my partners Mavic pro to record the P4 for an upcoming YouTube video and I was really focusing on what I was doing stepped forward and some of the...
  6. patman561

    Drone Hits Power Line (Phantom 3 Pro)

    Completely amazed that my drone did a 360 degree flip after hitting a power line and did not crash to the ground. How is this possible? Has anyone else ever had their Phantom upside down without crashing?
  7. M

    First Time Flyer, great Video, Drone Crash in Power Line...Lesson Learned

    My first video with a drone...great scenes...but chrashes into power lines....happy ending though! Lessons Learned!
  8. reboot81

    Light aircraft collides with drone in Norway

    Story in english: Light aircraft collides with drone in Norway SHT(Norwegian NTSB) Havarikommisjonen har iverksatt forundersøkelse i forbindelse med at et småfly søndag 30. august ca. kl. 17 kolliderte med en drone over Hvasser, Tjøme kommune, Vestfold | sht "SHT says the collision occurred at...
  9. F

    P3 What went wrong? Severe injuries

    While hovering, unit suddenly accelerated to my face. Good thing I was away from the crowd. Dangerous