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I was walking around 6pm at All Seasons Place, Bangkok last Wednesday evening when an 'object' came tumbling down from the sky and crashing to the floor a few meters in front of me in the path I was walking. Another object hit a close by car. If I had been walking just a little faster it could easily have hit me on the head. I ran to hide in a small alcove of the building not even knowing what it was at first. After carefully then looking I recognized it was a DJI Phantom Mavic Pro that had been crashed into the building and fallen to the ground. The battery was missing so guessing that may have what hit the car.
The careless irresponsible pilot was flying close to the commercial heart of Bangkok where there is the American embassy and American ambassador residence in the immediate vicinity and lots of tall buildings.
If anyone can help me I took photo of the serial number of the drone and I took out the memory card as I wanted to try and find where they flew from (I did not feel bad to do this given what nearly happened to me in that incident). The memory card has Apple Mac signature files on so if someone knows how to decipher this it may have the apple machine serial there too. I also contacted the security there at the time.
From the video files:
8th Jan + 18th March: Flying at Salisbury School close to Washington.
19th Feb: Assawoman Bay at Maryland
9th June: Was flying very close to the Brooklyn bridge in New York.
14th June: Flying in center of Bangkok. Was not recording at the time of this flight.
There is also a picture in the memory card of the pilot (and his girlfriend) operating the drone from a beach. They both look of Asian descent (Korean or Chinese looking)
Sadly it's the idiots like this that may well tighten the screws by authorities for the good and more careful people.
The careless irresponsible pilot was flying close to the commercial heart of Bangkok where there is the American embassy and American ambassador residence in the immediate vicinity and lots of tall buildings.
If anyone can help me I took photo of the serial number of the drone and I took out the memory card as I wanted to try and find where they flew from (I did not feel bad to do this given what nearly happened to me in that incident). The memory card has Apple Mac signature files on so if someone knows how to decipher this it may have the apple machine serial there too. I also contacted the security there at the time.
From the video files:
8th Jan + 18th March: Flying at Salisbury School close to Washington.
19th Feb: Assawoman Bay at Maryland
9th June: Was flying very close to the Brooklyn bridge in New York.
14th June: Flying in center of Bangkok. Was not recording at the time of this flight.
There is also a picture in the memory card of the pilot (and his girlfriend) operating the drone from a beach. They both look of Asian descent (Korean or Chinese looking)
Sadly it's the idiots like this that may well tighten the screws by authorities for the good and more careful people.
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