Amazon drones hit crane

[Domenick]

Luckily no one was hit with debris.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/us/arizona-amazon-drones-crash

 

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

Since the crane didn't have ADS-B out, the drones had the right-of-way.

 

[FORANE]

It was a prime target.

 

[kc4wsd]

It was a prime target.

 

[Omalley1537]

If only someone would have asked “any traffic in the pattern please advise”…

 

[Bob Noel]

Where was the magenta line?

 

[AV8R_87]

Right through it.

 

[Silvaire]

“We’ve completed our own internal review of this incident and are confident that there wasn’t an issue with the drones or the technology that supports them,”

So they were supposed to hit the crane?

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

my silly DJI drone has obstacle avoidance but theirs does not??

 

[Zeldman]

How do we know the crane did not swat the drones.??

 

[AV8R_87]

Crane become self-aware?

 

[Daleandee]

Was this a case of "targeting" ...

 

[Salty]

Exactly how much money do you have to have in order to get the FAA to let you ignore their rules and follow your own instead? Asking for a friend.

And how does this not violate the 14th amendment? Rhetorical question, don't get the thread locked over it.

 

[Lindberg]

Exactly how much money do you have to have in order to get the FAA to let you ignore their rules and follow your own instead?

Where did you get that the FAA is letting them ignore rules?

 

[Racerx]

Where did you get that the FAA is letting them ignore rules?

Well, they had multiple drones hit a stationary object and nearly hit people on the ground. Yet the FAA didn't shut the operator down immediately.

 

[MauleSkinner]

Well, they had multiple drones hit a stationary object and nearly hit people on the ground. Yet the FAA didn't shut the operator down immediately.

What regulations did they violate to the level of pulling an operating certificate?

 

[Bell206]

Yet the FAA didn't shut the operator down immediately.

Its my understanding that specific operation was stood down as any other operator. I think once the NTSB report is out we'll learn why they were allowed to resume ops.

 

[Domenick]

Exactly how much money do you have to have in order to get the FAA to let you ignore their rules and follow your own instead? ...

If, actually true, then you need to be at least the third richest person on the planet.

 

[Half Fast]

If, actually true, then you need to be at least the third richest person on the planet.

Dang. I'm still trying to crack the top 10.