Or someone could have switched the other GCS off, I expect human factors will play a big part sounds like the Fire Scout was having fun by itself, good job there were not any 2001' hills in the way.
"As Cmdr. Danny Hernandez, a Navy spokesman, put it: “When they lose contact with the Fire Scout, there’s a program that’s supposed to have it immediately return to the airfield to land safely. That did not happen as planned.”
It could have been over an unpopulated area & flown into a populated area if the RTL code failed. Our main concern with RTL code has always been a motor start on the bench.
Well I wonder if they were readying to shoot it down like they did last with the Reaper, you would think there would be a kill switch, unless all comms failed, even then I guess you would think it would do that for itself. They had to be in touch with it.
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"As Cmdr. Danny Hernandez, a Navy spokesman, put it: “When they lose contact with the Fire Scout, there’s a program that’s supposed to have it immediately return to the airfield to land safely. That did not happen as planned.”