‘Stop saying ‘uh-oh’ while you’re flying’: Drone crash pilot quotes unveiled - The Washington Post
“This thing’s kind of climbing like a pig. Climb, you pig. . . . Boy, this is going to be tight. . . . Okay, interesting. We are falling out of the sky.”
Unidentified pilot of a Predator that crashed near Creech Air Force Base in Nevada on May 13, 2013.
When drones fall from the sky | The Washington Post
More than 400 large U.S. military drones have crashed in major
accidents around the world since 2001, a record of calamity that exposes
the potential dangers of throwing open American skies to drone traffic,
according to a year-long Washington Post investigation.
Since the outbreak of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, military drones have malfunctioned in myriad ways, plummeting from the sky because of mechanical breakdowns, human error, bad weather and other reasons, according to more than 50,000 pages of accident investigation reports and other records obtained by The Post under the Freedom of Information Act.
Report: U.S. Military Has Lost More Than 400 UAVs In Accidents | Aero-News Network
Since the outbreak of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, military drones have malfunctioned in myriad ways, plummeting from the sky because of mechanical breakdowns, human error, bad weather and other reasons, according to more than 50,000 pages of accident investigation reports and other records obtained by The Post under the Freedom of Information Act.
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