Hi tommy,
Ok, that's a good start, (but only searching 3 1/2 hrs), how long ago did this errant flight take place? When did you contact DJI & By phone or email? Man, I feel your need to get a group of friends and go back, stretch out a few good yards apart and walk through together and do a thorough hunt. Don't give up hope, before or without giving it a better look brother. That's just too high of price not to go back and look high and low. On a Saturday morning bright and early, I would be out there, if you had five people, ten would be much better. You could cover a lot of ground in a few short hours. Who knows what you may discover back in there as well. Bring drinks and hefty trash bags along.
Hopeful it will be discovered hanging safe in a tree, undamaged, but only tired and hungry for a charge and one new rotor blade. ;-).
Hope DJI can and does help you as well.
I see by your posts that you are new here, welcome to the forum. & that you already have a kind offer from another forum member. I think that kindness may be fairly representative of most of the members here.
At least that's been my experience here so far. A pretty giving crowd who mostly all get along with one another. Plenty of rib poking and joking around amongst the regulars too. I would be interested to follow this thread and see how things improve and develop for you in the next while too.
Hopefully your luck has already changed, and for what ever reason your phantom was or is lost, you can continue to enjoy the hobby, and share in the comraderie here as well.
A Phantom flew all the way into an army base that was found there and they want to return it.
So people do discover them. You never know if yours will be found, but do continue looking.
Keep your chin up and always looking forward, to a much brighter day. ;-)
RedHotPoker