Post of the decade, sadly
Much of this is about being able to check off the Heritage Foundation's wet dream shopping list while conning enough of the population to vote and cheer for it. I've never been so ashamed to be an American in my life...
>>An investigation revealed that the authorized search and rescue drone had flown too high and stalled, leading to the collision.
Had flown too high and stalled ???
Don't know where your drone is, don't know how to fly it home?
No map needed.
Learn to use the radar display.
Switch it on ...
It shows you the drone is out there in the distance.
Rotate the drone until the drone icon is pointing to home.
Then...
Have you tried getting closer?
It's not that the drone's defective.
It's physics.
The array of tiny pixels on the drone's sensor and the textured surfaces are interfering with each other.
A sensor with larger pixels (as you've found with the...