......but what happened?
Never a hint of a problem, and a great trouble free craft for 26 consecutive flights.
Normal successful calibration, normal startup, aircraft "safe to fly", GPS lock, takeoff, no significant weather to speak off. Flight was at about 20 ft off ground and moving forward across moving floodwaters of the Mississippi covering a roadway. About 4 minutes into flight, it drops from the sky directly into the water. Flight data states that one second before the drop, the craft went into ATTI mode and the controller said "ATTI mode". It was impossible to control and instantly crashed, carried off to New Orleans from St. Louis. No recovery possible.
There were some high tension power lines about 100 yards away but calibration was performed normally and I have flown within that distance of high tension power lines before without anything happening. I can understand if the lines were directly overhead or extremely close, but why would the craft just instantly enter ATTI mode and crash because of relatively distant ones?
I am attaching link to the flight log. I've been on Healthy Drones and can't see anything unusual, maybe more seasoned eyes can help on this forum. Based on this, I think I have a legitimate claim with DJI for a replacement. I am a moderately experienced pilot, not a novice and was flying slowly and normally. I feel this crash was not my fault.
Please note that the GPS shows a relatively dry area but at the time of this flood, the water was moving swiftly across this road and where it crashed was in about 3-5 feet of water.
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Never a hint of a problem, and a great trouble free craft for 26 consecutive flights.
Normal successful calibration, normal startup, aircraft "safe to fly", GPS lock, takeoff, no significant weather to speak off. Flight was at about 20 ft off ground and moving forward across moving floodwaters of the Mississippi covering a roadway. About 4 minutes into flight, it drops from the sky directly into the water. Flight data states that one second before the drop, the craft went into ATTI mode and the controller said "ATTI mode". It was impossible to control and instantly crashed, carried off to New Orleans from St. Louis. No recovery possible.
There were some high tension power lines about 100 yards away but calibration was performed normally and I have flown within that distance of high tension power lines before without anything happening. I can understand if the lines were directly overhead or extremely close, but why would the craft just instantly enter ATTI mode and crash because of relatively distant ones?
I am attaching link to the flight log. I've been on Healthy Drones and can't see anything unusual, maybe more seasoned eyes can help on this forum. Based on this, I think I have a legitimate claim with DJI for a replacement. I am a moderately experienced pilot, not a novice and was flying slowly and normally. I feel this crash was not my fault.
Please note that the GPS shows a relatively dry area but at the time of this flood, the water was moving swiftly across this road and where it crashed was in about 3-5 feet of water.
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