T3

Bad ESC?

I was hovering my quad at a fairly high altitude when it suddenly tumbled out of the sky into a 50' tree. I assembled a huge stick and got it down. I was flying while it was snowing... possibly a bad idea...I was about 2 minutes into the flight. I think the left front ESC failed. Bench testing now yields normal behavior from the other 3 motors and the left front goes "beep beep {pause} beep beep". I think this is a low-voltage warning. My pack is appropriately charged, I even tried 3s and 4s packs. Watch the video and turn on the sound, it makes kind of a grinding noise as it goes down. 

Any ideas? Is this things fixable? 

possible front left esc failure.wmv

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    Thats what I did, and it works fine now. I am really curious as to why it would fail like that. Could flying in the snow do it in?
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