Well since about all I have seen posted is about the drone being alright thought I would put this in here from that article
This isn't a joking matter guys .Wake up
What if that was little Sally or Johnny . You know ,your kid
OK..carry on with the humor .
I don't see any in it but that's JMO
I cannot agree with you more. Imagine if it was a baby on a blanket, and hope she sues the heck out of him. For whomever posted that it came down at an angle, and looked staged, I disagree. Once an object loses its forward air speed, for the most part, it comes straight down with very little forward thrust once inertia is lost. Gravity increases its descent speed, not forward speed. But I am no rocket scientist and this is taken from Newton's First Law of Motion, but don't take my word for it, read their brevity of it here.
Introduction: The traditional phrasing of Newton's First Law of Motion is this: An object at rest will remain at rest (forever!), and an object in motion will remain in motion (forever!) in a straight line with constant speed, unless acted upon by an outside force. Note that this statement is meaningless unless you know what a force is. What is a force? Any push or pull. Other synonyms: tug, nudge, poke, shove, prod, impetus, heave, yank
Alternate phrasing of Newton's 1st Law: An object cannot change its velocity by itself. Something outside must exert a force. This property is called inertia. It is a natural resistance to acceleration that all objects have. The greater the object's mass, the greater this resistance.
You’ve probably heard of this before, and may even think that it is obvious, but it’s not. In our everyday experience, things don’t keep moving unless something pushes them. Coasting cars come to a stop; boxes slid on the floor come to a rest unless you keep pushing on them. The reason most things in our lives do NOT keep moving forever is because there almost always is an “outside force” — friction. When friction is reduced to insignificance, inertia becomes much more obvious. For example: a hockey puck sliding on an ice rink, or the puck on an air hockey table. The invention of the wheel, while not removing friction entirely, greatly reduces friction and makes it easier to keep things moving. The idea of inertia wasn’t discovered by Newton, despite being called “Newton’s First Law”. It was actually discovered by Galileo.
In the case of this falling drone, he was probably in a directional, not hovering procedure, and either CSC'd it, or something else stupid, and lost it. Forward thrust or inertia may have taken over, but in the end, gravity is going to bite you in your "fourth point of contact." (As it is called in Airborne units).