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Has this ever happened to you? Is there any reason DJI wouldn't honor the warranty?* The AC was flying smoothly using the AutoPilot Waypoint mode of a 9 hole mission. The AC suddenly fell from the sky at the halfway point of the mission with 60% of battery life left, at about the 11th minute, from an elevation of about 40 meters during the peace of dawn. I can see no apparent cause of the crash. Attached are (1) a screen capture of the completed flight route when the crash happened, and (2) a compressed zip file with the log data of the flight. This YouTube video shows the flight up to the crash:
Please forgive the soft and grainy quality of the video. It is from my iPhone which videoed computer screen running the recovered video. The video file was truncated because the recording wasn't properly turned off as a result of the crash. The recovered, but unstable, h265 file format video can only be viewed with VLC. There doesn't seem to be any other way to convert it. Most of the (iPhone-recorded) video is sped up 2x. The video speed is then back to normal just before the crash, which actually happens at about 10:44 (mm:ss) of the raw video. In this sped up version it happens at about 5:28. (I'm still trying to fully recover the video. The lighting was perfect for post processing.)
Music: Clouds by audionautix.com
*DJI Thailand says it needs to be sent to Hong Kong to analyze. It could take 2 months before any decision on what my options are.
Music: Clouds by audionautix.com
*DJI Thailand says it needs to be sent to Hong Kong to analyze. It could take 2 months before any decision on what my options are.