e-CFR & Reporting of lost link, fly away, crash, etc . . .

[theDRONEranger]

Just curious! While perusing the e-CFR, Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR), it does state a requirement to report a loss of control, among other items! Has anyone ever followed through with the appropriate notifications after losing control, or a crash, loss of aircraft? Etc?

 

[BigAl07]

Just curious! While perusing the e-CFR, Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR), it does state a requirement to report a loss of control, among other items! Has anyone ever followed through with the appropriate notifications after losing control, or a crash, loss of aircraft? Etc?

We lost an aircraft back in ~2017 (IIRC) and reported it. Just some paperwork and I guess it was to document the incident in case there was an additional incident (for instance if it had crashed into someone's car/house etc) related to the initial incident.

 

[sar104]

Just curious! While perusing the e-CFR, Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR), it does state a requirement to report a loss of control, among other items! Has anyone ever followed through with the appropriate notifications after losing control, or a crash, loss of aircraft? Etc?

Are you referring to sUAS accidents? If so then you have to read Part 830 in its entirety. Specifically 830.2, which defines the scope of that section’s applicability to sUAS operations:

Unmanned aircraft accident means an occurrence associated with the operation of any public or civil unmanned aircraft system that takes place between the time that the system is activated with the purpose of flight and the time that the system is deactivated at the conclusion of its mission, in which:​

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(1) Any person suffers death or serious injury; or​

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(2) The aircraft has a maximum gross takeoff weight of 300 pounds or greater and sustains substantial damage.​

 

[maelstrom]

Any person suffers death or serious injury

The problem is that if you have a flyaway, and the aircraft is subsequently lost, you probably have no idea whether it caused someone to be seriously injured or to die.

 

[theDRONEranger]

Are you referring to sUAS accidents? If so then you have to read Part 830 in its entirety. Specifically 830.2, which defines the scope of that section’s applicability to sUAS operations:

Unmanned aircraft accident means an occurrence associated with the operation of any public or civil unmanned aircraft system that takes place between the time that the system is activated with the purpose of flight and the time that the system is deactivated at the conclusion of its mission, in which:​

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(1) Any person suffers death or serious injury; or​

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(2) The aircraft has a maximum gross takeoff weight of 300 pounds or greater and sustains substantial damage.​

I was more curious to know if the government does any tracking on fly a ways and lost links. I was wondering if that was what was driving the RID.

 

[theDRONEranger]

True, but hopefully one would be able to roughly compute last direction, speed, and altitude and hopefully retrieve. Hopefully! In the meantime one could only hope that no one was injured.

 

[sar104]

The problem is that if you have a flyaway, and the aircraft is subsequently lost, you probably have no idea whether it caused someone to be seriously injured or to die.

That's a real stretch. But if you are desperate for a reason to report to the FAA then I would definitely give it a go.

 

[sar104]

I was more curious to know if the government does any tracking on fly a ways and lost links. I was wondering if that was what was driving the RID.

No, and no.