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Morning all.
I took my drone out yesterday morning (Phantom 3 professional) and all was working nicely.
I was filming a viaduct which has a river running through the center span.
I decided to fly through the center span which is approx 40 foot wide and probably 50/60 foot high.
I flew through the span very slowly as I was videoing and exited the other side, I then turned the phantom 180 degree and started another slow run back toward me, still in the center of the span and about 3 meters above the river.
It got about 3/4 of the way through and then started moving very slowly to the left, i took my hands off the controller but it still continued to move to the left. I then tried with the controller to go right but the drone didn't respond. It continued slowly to the left until it hit the center of the bridge and dropped into the river (where it still is at this moment in time).
There was virtually no wind so I can't figure out why the drone became unresponsive, any ideas?
P.S, hoping to recover the drone next weekend. Probably wont be usable even after allowing it to dry out, but I want the SD card from it for the video I had done.
I took my drone out yesterday morning (Phantom 3 professional) and all was working nicely.
I was filming a viaduct which has a river running through the center span.
I decided to fly through the center span which is approx 40 foot wide and probably 50/60 foot high.
I flew through the span very slowly as I was videoing and exited the other side, I then turned the phantom 180 degree and started another slow run back toward me, still in the center of the span and about 3 meters above the river.
It got about 3/4 of the way through and then started moving very slowly to the left, i took my hands off the controller but it still continued to move to the left. I then tried with the controller to go right but the drone didn't respond. It continued slowly to the left until it hit the center of the bridge and dropped into the river (where it still is at this moment in time).
There was virtually no wind so I can't figure out why the drone became unresponsive, any ideas?
P.S, hoping to recover the drone next weekend. Probably wont be usable even after allowing it to dry out, but I want the SD card from it for the video I had done.