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Today I was flying my phantom and i would say about 80' high and maybe 100' away from me, it just started flying further away and descending without any command from me. I instinctually throttled up... but it kept falling anyway and going in a direction away from me even though i wasn't touching the right stick. finally it responding to my throttle up left stick command... i quickly brought it back home.... during this event, I did look at my app and there was no control signal loss message. I also had 9 satellites. And prior to the flight, i had done the compass calibration and of course ensured I had 6+ satellites. Everyone here knows I'm not a nooby to the vision+... So I remembered a few months back, i had a violent wobble and crash.. some here speculated it was a VRS. I somehow doubted that.. but when the crash occurred, I marked the battery i was using #5. I use 5 batteries routinely. Today, I went through 3 batteries no problem. When this incident happened where I lost control, once I brought the bird back, I looked at the battery number and sure enough, battery #5. Question is, why or how could a faulty battery cause a phantom to fly away and descend but still have power? This battery was only 1 bar down when this occurred... I doubt the battery had anything to do with this, but out of 5 batteries, this is a big coincidence if it didn't... Thoughts anyone? Oh, there was very little wind if any... and i was in a very open area...