Delivery Drone Crashes Into Apartment Building
There is a potential new headache for property managers now as an Amazon delivery drone crashed into an apartment building in the Dallas suburb of Richardson.
An Amazon Prime Air MK30 drone hit the side of the apartment building and crashed to the ground. The company is working to make minor repairs to the apartment building related to the collision.
Witnesses said the propellers on the drone were still moving when it hit the apartment building “and you could smell it was starting to burn. Luckily, nothing really caught on fire” where it hit the building.
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Firefighters arrived at the scene of the crash, where they examined the smoking machine. The first responders helped Amazon workers collect the drone pieces and load them onto a truck.
The incident occurred about two weeks after Amazon temporarily suspended its commercial drone delivery operations in Texas and Arizona following the crash of two of its UAVs in rainy weather at a testing facility.
The crashes, which occurred at Amazon’s testing site in Pendleton, Ore., were attributed to a software malfunction caused by light rain.
Amazon’s MK30 drones have been delivering packages in College Station, Texas, and Tolleson, Ariz., after the company won approval from the Federal Aviation Administration in October.
Source: Rental Housing Journal
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