Another reminder of the dangers of using drones by air brained guy like the above. This time flying a machine in close proximity and unprotected blades. He is lucky it didn't slice his fingers off!
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/31/enrique-iglesias-drone-tijuana-concert
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The Inspire 1 has pretty hefty motors, he's lucky it fractured his finger but didn't cut it off. A typical 2212 motor with 10" props can be pretty harmful already, and those are a lot bigger. It's also insane of his crew to do this with a closed-source autopilot in which you can't predict what the PIDs are going to command the motors to do when the aircraft's attitude is restrained by it being held in a hand.
Actually he's lucky the drone didn't spin towards him and cut his face with the remaining props when the one prop collided with the hand and probably lost lift (haven't seen a video).
I personally blame the operator... I will never allow any of my vehicles get close to someone in that particular way... Even if the artist insist in doing so...
And by the way, Mexico has started implementing similar rules regarding Drones... take a look (http://www.sct.gob.mx/fileadmin/DireccionesGrales/DGAC/00%20Aeronau...), its only in spanish, sorry.
Clearly OHS means something else in Mexico and is something one takes, to inspire one, to take down drones. :-p
Got me there... Mexico
While not smart, I doubt this was illegal. Do you really think there are laws banning this in Mexico?
There is nothing legal or smart about any of this.
The headline of this post is pure click bait and not representative of what happened.
Really, "Singer attacks Concert Drone"??? Did the person who posted this absurd headline actually read the article?? Or did you just look at the picture and make up a headline? Perhaps you should go work for Buzzfeed if your not interested accurate reporting.
So does he get charged for interfering with an aircraft in flight or the operator for flying over a crowd. I guess if it was indoors all bets are off.
Still prefer the Madonna cape yank.
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