We’ve been warning of the dangers of the coming integration of military drones into civilian US airspace for a while now. Will it take one almost creaming a convenience store to convince you it’s real? Here it comes:
Gone in 65 Seconds: Pilot Error Led to $6 Million Loss in Military Drone Crash A Reaper drone crashed at the end of a New York runway last year because the operators mixed up the levers on the control panel, an Air Force investigation report released last week said.
What a coinkydink that they failed to share this with us, just a few weeks after the Voice of San Diego announced that they were suing over the lack of info related to the planned flight of an even bigger drone over their City… Is the USAF reluctance to report this crash related to the ongoing attempts to integrate such flying, spying gas cans into the National Airspace System? Stay Tuned.