Never read or seen an article, video etc where anyone has been killed by a falling drone.
Agree with you about flying responsibly.
Although there is a hype around the world reporting drone accidents usually only the most dramatic incidents get international attention.
Here in Germany there already have been several "near misses" of misdirected / out of control drones in the last years, where cars were hit or a drone crashed through a glasshouse or even one crashed into the viewing platform of the television tower in Berlin.
Luckily without lethal consequences.
I am flying drones since more than 10 years (as a computer scientist and microcomputer specialist I even programmed the flight control, IMU and ESC of my first drone) and am flying rc model airplanes since 45 years. Having been an active pilot for man carrying glider and motor gliders for many years, I probably have a different sense on what responsible flying means.
What johnpham is bragging about is simply dangerous.
Yes, It is a calming feeling that the rc and video links safely work beyond VLOS. That should be enough.
You also should know about how 2.4 Ghz or 5.8 GHz radio signals spread and that even a human body walking between the control and the drone can dampen the signal significantly.
I am a member in a rc model pilots club and we have had reported cases of drop outs and therefore have established the rule that multiple pilots flying at the same time have to form a cluster.
Imagine what happens when you are at a marginal distance and the connection is dropped. Yes, the drone could, if properly working, execute a RTH. But like many crash reports in this forum show, you should not rely on all those autonomous flight features and a mavic is not an 8 ounce toy. If something happens you are the person to blame.
