With an automated mission, we have no joystick inputs showing pilot actions.
All we can tell is what you already said, that the flyer set things up so that the drone was going to fly straight through the tower to commence the mission.
No, there is no setting to make the drone startup by putting the joysticks in the CSC position.
It sounds like either the controller does not work or the controller has not been linked to the drone.
How are you suggesting that static electricity build up can cause or contribute to an incident like this?
If this was genuinely an issue for drone flyers, wouldn't we have heard of hundreds of incidents just like it?
You've been on about this silly idea for years now and it's still silly and illogically paranoid.
No-one has given any indication of any intention to confiscate drones.
If that's how it usually happens, perhaps you can remind us of a few times...