Soooo..... last night while filming 2 separate fireworks display , on a return flight home from the furthest point ... about 3500 ft away , I was closing in on the nearest zone .... 1200 ft away ... I was decending to around 300 ft , when all of a sudden , I get a warning ... LANDING NOW ... I X'ed it out .. then CRITICAL MOTOR FAILURE or some **** like that , pops up ... ! The next thing I know ... a violent spin .... no control , nothing I could do .... complete loss ..... drone disconnected ... I hop in my truck ... a very WTF moment ... where the ( Mod Removed Language )did my 2k just disappear too ???? Hit the FIND MY DRONE feature ... saw that it was in between 2 dead end streets ....THANK GOD !!! Thank God that it wasn't out in a forest where I had just come from or in an irrigation pond ... found my drone about 12 ft up in a tree ... still had the LED bottom lights on .. still blinking the nav lights ... completely missing right rear arm , and had a severed , but still attached front left arm .... brought her home ... ordered new parts ... This morning ... a strange reality hits .... THANK GOD it landed in a tree .... Thank GOD the thing didn't smash some kid in the head , or crash through the glass in someone's car ..... What was the reason that the motor failed ?!?!? I DONT KNOW .... but the reality is these things can go at the blink of an eye ... AND IM NOT HAPPY ABOUT THAT !!!! I fly over open water ... ALL the time , because that's my area ...Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean in Virginia .... Don't wanna lose my drone there ,,, but don't want it taking anyone out either ....This drone has less than 30 hours of flight time .... anyone else have an idea when I should expect the next motor failure .... because I with set this thing on fire and run it over with my truck , then throw it in the creek , then fish it back out , then throw it in the dump , then go find it when it gets to the landfill , then bury it in concrete , if I ever have to think that this thing is going to be a flying time bomb .....
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