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  • Rob_Lefebvre January 30, 2013 at 9:47am

    If it work similar the Phantom, the 3 red flashes indicate that the unit can only see 3 sats. not enough for gps hold....so apparently they did not even read the instructions. It would not surprise me if  it was the first flight for the aircraft and pilot

    That's interesting.  On another forum, somebody else pointed out that there was a flashing light indicating they were in GPS position hold, and you are saying there are only 3 satellites in view, so they should not have been in GPS mode.

    This ties into my thinking that RTF systems will have a higher number of these incidents.

  • Patrick Egan January 30, 2013 at 9:43am

    That is just plane crazy. 

  • LanMark January 30, 2013 at 9:42am

    This is just scary.. even if the multicopter had prop guards that is still a lot of weight falling out of the sky at -9.8m^2.. I can't believe someone didn't die or get seriously hurt.   I am all for multiroters but in a stadium filled with people is just nuts.. much like that other Brazil event that happened this week with 2000 people in a 1000 person capacity space... crazy just crazy

  • R. D. Starwalt January 30, 2013 at 9:19am

    The level of ignorant trust that is exhibited in the technology is amazing.

    Unless the fans are signing waivers, what would posess any facility to allow a multirotor to fly anywhere near the fans? For that matter, even if the stadium was empty (it was fairly sparse) and the players were in scrimmage, the danger is no less. To injure a paid professional athlete would have caused a global black mark on the technology.

    Wow. Just plain wow.

    -=Doug

  • Rafael January 30, 2013 at 7:25am

    Face Bandit - https://twitter.com/jarbas_oliveira/status/295964134116315136/photo...

  • Rob_Lefebvre January 30, 2013 at 5:55am

    IMO, the more RTF the aircraft is, the more likely we are to see this sort of thing.

  • Emery c. Chandler January 30, 2013 at 5:26am

    i agree with joshua, now one of things we also need to do is find a way to safely get it down in a cato-fail.

  • Joshua Johnson January 30, 2013 at 4:55am

    For every video like this us as a community needs to create 100 videos of successful flights. Lesson learned about flying it above an area full of people.  Rule #1 never fly above people. Thanks for Sharing Mark very informational!

    Joshua Johnson

  • Jason Wise January 30, 2013 at 2:41am

    Pilot too excited and fast....what a muppet!

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    Gary Mortimer January 30, 2013 at 2:34am

    I was told about it yesterday and put out a call on sUAS News for info, pretty sure its a DJI zenmuse Spreading Wings S800 and that the purple blinking suggests the Hex was in "position hold" 

    So perhaps shows that GPS does not work so well in an area with a restricted view of the sky. 

    http://www.suasnews.com/2013/01/20813/hexacopter-crash-castelo-stad...

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