A DJI Phantom reportedly crashed into the white house grounds around 3 a.m. this morning. The incident caused a lock down of the perimeter, but around 9 a.m. this morning a individual self reported that they had been in control of the unit before the crash. The quad did not have a camera on it at the time of crash, and was determined that although it is Illegal to fly anything in the restricted airspace there was no immediate threat ant the area was cleared in a matter of hours. The individual was later discovered to be a government employee.
In other news, a six propeller remote controlled aircraft that was carrying six packets of methamphetamine crashed into a supermarket parking lot in a bordering Mexico city. The drone appears to have been attempting to smuggle more than six pounds of drugs across the border to California. Currently the event is being investigated, but at this time the authorities have no leads on where the flight originated or who was the pilot.
These recent stories are a good reminder that flying safely is and needs to be a top priority.
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