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    Drone hits power line, causes power outage in CA

    Well, there is a decent bit of metal in most drones, e.g. the heatsink on the bottom of a mavic. Or the physical collision could be enough to break something I guess, such as an insulator or connector. There's a physics leverage trick where a small force in the middle of a long suspended cable...
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    Drone hits power line, causes power outage in CA

    Affected 1600 people for about 3 hours: City of Mountain View - News Details No idea what model it was from the tiny blurry mess of a photo they posted with the article. Watch out for those power lines! Sunset is currently 8:29 in Mountain View, so this wasn't night flight, but still don't...