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Drone crashed into Seattle’s Space Needle on New Year’s Eve
Posted on 1/11/17 at 11:41 pm
Posted on 1/11/17 at 11:41 pm
Video shows drone diving full-speed at topmost platform, full of NYE pyrotechnics
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Video footage confirms that a drone aircraft flew directly at and crashed into the Space Needle's utmost viewing platform on New Year's Eve. The craft, which was subsequently recovered by the staff, was handed over to the Seattle Police Department on Tuesday.
Space Needle representative Dave Mandapat has provided Ars Technica video recovered from the drone, a camera-mounted DJI Inspire 1. The three-minute clip, which includes a few fade-to-black edits, shows the perspective of a craft ascending from an area east of the Seattle Center district (without identifying footage of a takeoff or origin point), then hovering above and around the Space Needle's top platform while pyrotechnic experts arranged and worked on the tower's annual New Year's fireworks show.
Roughly two minutes into the video, the drone shifts perspective to aim its camera view directly at the tower's topmost platform, at which point it apparently flies at an incredibly high speed until ramming into a spotlight. The collision took place mere feet away from both the pyrotechnic experts and their various arrays of electronics and fireworks equipment.
Posted on 1/11/17 at 11:43 pm to Street Hawk
Muslims are getting sloppy
Posted on 1/11/17 at 11:44 pm to Street Hawk
Likely was registered and the owner is about to get slapped with a big fine
Posted on 1/12/17 at 12:04 am to Street Hawk
Anybody know how to post videos to Facebook?
Posted on 1/12/17 at 12:05 am to Street Hawk
Drones have become the new Traxxas nitro T-maxx of the R/C world.
Posted on 1/12/17 at 6:06 am to Street Hawk
Looks like they just lost control of it. Certainly wasn't aiming for anything in particular.
Posted on 1/12/17 at 7:57 am to Street Hawk
Asshats like this are going to ruin it for the rest of us.
Posted on 1/12/17 at 8:02 am to Street Hawk
I just wasted 3 min of my life
Posted on 1/12/17 at 8:26 am to Street Hawk
Maybe the operator had a heart attack?
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