Amazon Removed Backup Landing Sensor Before Drone Crashes

Amazon’s Delivery Drones Are Crashing, and We Finally Know Why

Amazon, the multi-trillion dollar e-commerce monolith, seemingly cheaped out on on a key feature installed on its six-propeller delivery drones. Predictably, this backfired almost immediately. On a (lightly) rainy December day at the company's testing range in Oregon, not one but two Prime Air drones suddenly stopped spinning their propellers mid-flight and plummeted some 200 feet to the ground. The crashes, which destroyed both aircraft, happen…

Amazon delivery drones crashed during test flight after safety sensor removed: report

Amazon’s cutting-edge delivery drones fell from the sky during a December test flight after a software update made them vulnerable to rain.

Amazon Removed Backup Landing Sensor Before Drone Crashes

Retaining the technology could have prevented the aircraft from accidentally shutting off their propellers midflight and plummeting to the ground.

SCIENCE & TECH: Amazon delivery drones crashed after company removed safety sensor – U-S-NEWS.COM

Amazon’s cutting-edge delivery drones fell from the sky during a December test flight after a software update made them vulnerable to rain — an avoidable incident made worse by the company’s decision to remove a critical safety sensor, according to a report. The twin crashes of Amazon’s MK30 drones in Oregon occurred just minutes apart on Dec. 16, when both aircraft abruptly shut off mid-air at an altitude of more than 200 feet and slammed into …

Why Two Amazon Drones Crashed at a Test Facility in a December

While Amazon won FAA approval to fly beyond an operators' visual line of sight, "the program remains a work in progress," reports Bloomberg: A pair of Amazon.com Inc. package delivery drones were flying through a light rain in mid-December when, within minutes of one another, they both committed r...

Why do Amazon's delivery drones crash again and again? A new report by the U.S. Traffic Safety Authority now provides new insights into Prime Air's problems. read more on t3n.de