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Hi everyone.
I was flying yesterday until Mavic starts to behave abnormally and finally it crashed. Can anyone have look at DAT file and help me figure out what exactly happened?
The whole flight went well, when the drone was high something starts to happen, drone start to circulate and finally fell down.

There is a link to video recorded just before the crash:

FLY .DAT file uploaded there:

Can someone of you specialists can have a deep look into the logs and try to explain what caused a crash?
 

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Were you line of sight did you see a bird attack it. ?
 
Wow, that is strange.
Indeed like Phantomrain said looks like a bird attacked.
Although when the Mavic spun around no bird was visible to me.

Ruud
 
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I notice it looks misty in the video. How wet was the environment? Did this happen during a misting rain? I am learning that moisture is a serious potential factor with the Air 2 drones if it makes its way into the innards. The Pro design is not that different.

My issue has come from a crash I had with no damage, but the drone got a bit wet - not soaked, but some wetness that needed to be dried off. I also gave it a while to dry after cleaning before testing, but it had major brain issues on powering on - IMU not alignable, Gimbal not acting right and humming, bottom light stuck on, etc. I know it was a soft landing when it crashed from only maybe 5' in the air, the only damage was somehow electrical, even though it seemed like no water got inside the drone. I am confident that moisture is at the heart of why it suddenly went "stupid".

I could see a small amount of water making its way inside during flight in wet conditions, so that is on my personal list of cautions where I won't fly. That could be what happened to you - just a drop or two building up from condensation could make its way in and it could easily wreak havoc with the operating electronics.
 
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What is that blackish blur in the top right corner of the picture?
To me it looked like a bird.
It was stated that that there was no bird.
The first seconds the flight was stable then something happened to make the flight unstable this was for a few seconds, then the picture becomes stable again and after some seconds the unstability returns.
To me it does not look like a problem with the RPM of 1 motor because a problem with the rpm doesn't come and go.

Ruud
 
Can someone of you specialists can have a deep look into the logs and try to explain what caused a crash?
You've already posted about this incident and it's been analysed.
There's no need to start asking all over again.
 
You've already posted about this incident and it's been analysed.
There's no need to start asking all over again.
Thanks Meta4 for a suggestion. How can I close this topic?
 
Let's keep this thread in one place and not get confused with the same topic in TWO different sections of the forum.

See the FULL thread at:


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