Phantom 3 Crash & Miracle

[rick omrani]

Greetings - Long time Phantom 2 pilot and had upgraded to P3 Advanced a couple months ago.

Well it happened after many hours of flying. I was in the pacific northwest and wanted to get some shots of this bridge and didn't realize how off my line of sight was. I thought I was further away from the bridge than I actually was.

I somehow managed to fly through 2 slits in the bridge cables after the crash...lucky is a complete understatement. The P3A was flying away at times after the crash but after about 3 minutes I gained control and brought her down to me. Only minor damage to a few props! Took it out for a flight yesterday and everything seems to be working just fine.

Enjoy and be safe!

 

[caffeinated]

Holy crap.

 

[omarkatwe]

Woooooowww

 

[F6Rider]

Is that the Sundial bridge in Redding?

 

[spankybear]

Dang... Life's a Garden... Dig it!

 

[spankybear]

Is that the Sundial bridge in Redding?

People in the Pacific Northwest don't include Redding California in our region I am thinking Vancouver BC

 

[30secs]

Dude.. Unreal. Great save

 

[inspector_tim]

Buy a lotto ticket, luck's on your side!

 

[Donezil]

Buy a lotto ticket, luck's on your side!

Or he just spent all his lucky on this case..

 

[TAZ]

Looks like the Thea-Foss Waterway Bridge in Tacoma, WA.

 

[Fares]

WTF did i just saw !!!!!

 

[mad in nc]

I would name it Timex - took a licking and kept on ticking... Wow!

 

[spankybear]

Got to ask... What firmware are you running on your brid?

 

[flax]

Great soundtrack too, perfect for the video!

 

[rick omrani]

Looks like the Thea-Foss Waterway Bridge in Tacoma, WA.

Yup, it was in Tacoma, WA.

 

[rick omrani]

Got to ask... What firmware are you running on your brid?

It had the latest firmware for the Phantom but the RC controller was the previous update. I just updated the RC controller today.

 

[rick omrani]

Super lucky, I totally thought it was over. One lucky man!

 

[Dre203]

Wow.... Very lucky. Even more lucky that it didn't fall and land on someone's car. But someone driving by had to see it like...WTF????

 

[tvckz]

Super scary. I had the same impact filming industrial machinery. I pushed right stick all the way down at the very last moment and it helped to incline p3 so it kissed the wall by its legs and kept flying.