Never ever start a flight with a battery partly charged that also have been laying around for a long time, always charge your batteries before you fly.
No... this wasn't a flyaway at all.
Instead it probably was a flight conducted with a battery that had been laying for a long time & self discharged.
The flight started with the battery at 52% (but that was totally wrong as the BMS in the...
Maybe the pilot wasn't used to mode 3... & fell back to a mode 2 thinking there close to the water with no height to give him head room to catch himself. The drone might have been piloted by a friend that's usually using mode 2?
No, the stick...