So i bought a mavic air back in August, for a trip to Europe in September. Did some practice flights, no problems, got comfortable. Have been doing some local filming since i returned.
Flew over some big cities in Europe and over water, in wind between mountains, through forests, again no problems. I was cautious of buildings and obstacles, wind and air moisture, wifi range/obstruction etc.
Today i tried to film a quick shot, Mavic went up in the air for about 10-15 seconds, above my head while i adjusted light/aperture settings ,
It suddenly veered 150m out over the water, did a sharp U-turn, banked hard right, all within 10 seconds
and i believe it hit the side of a bridge before falling most likely into water.
I didnt find it.
Reviewing the flight record and video feed, you can see i'm not touching the joysticks after initial take off... for 10 seconds until the very last second in an attempt to avoid the crash.
For a split second before impact it did have interference warning and high wind warning, BUT:
-It was already off-track before the warnings appeared
-The wind would have been blowing from the west off the ocean, and my Mavic Air veered westward (into the wind). It was also travelling 40km/h, wind that day was recorded at mid-20, i have recordings of trees in the area and they're barely blowing. Altitude was only 5-6 meters
-It banked HARD right suddenly, before losing transmission as if someone hit it out of the sky
I've had my drone up over the English Channel, Swiss Alps, Mediterranean Sea, over Vancouver's Mountains, and it had no problem staying level against wind gusts.
I've certainly never had it behave so erratically and go so far, so fast in such a short period of time,
My theory is that, a motor may have malfunctioned on one side of the drone. I briefly saw a "motor warning" of some kind once last month, but didn't have enough time to read the warning before it was off the screen, and the drone acted normal again. For the past 2-3 flights i've noticed it seemed to be floating sideways on its own, coming close to trees, and not being able to stay in one spot and i have to counter-hold the joystick slightly to manually stabilize.
Is it possible a motor died and the drone was unable to stabilize before crashing?
What are my warranty/replacement options?
Any other ideas what happened? will attempt to upload flight record
Flew over some big cities in Europe and over water, in wind between mountains, through forests, again no problems. I was cautious of buildings and obstacles, wind and air moisture, wifi range/obstruction etc.
Today i tried to film a quick shot, Mavic went up in the air for about 10-15 seconds, above my head while i adjusted light/aperture settings ,
It suddenly veered 150m out over the water, did a sharp U-turn, banked hard right, all within 10 seconds
and i believe it hit the side of a bridge before falling most likely into water.
I didnt find it.
Reviewing the flight record and video feed, you can see i'm not touching the joysticks after initial take off... for 10 seconds until the very last second in an attempt to avoid the crash.
For a split second before impact it did have interference warning and high wind warning, BUT:
-It was already off-track before the warnings appeared
-The wind would have been blowing from the west off the ocean, and my Mavic Air veered westward (into the wind). It was also travelling 40km/h, wind that day was recorded at mid-20, i have recordings of trees in the area and they're barely blowing. Altitude was only 5-6 meters
-It banked HARD right suddenly, before losing transmission as if someone hit it out of the sky
I've had my drone up over the English Channel, Swiss Alps, Mediterranean Sea, over Vancouver's Mountains, and it had no problem staying level against wind gusts.
I've certainly never had it behave so erratically and go so far, so fast in such a short period of time,
My theory is that, a motor may have malfunctioned on one side of the drone. I briefly saw a "motor warning" of some kind once last month, but didn't have enough time to read the warning before it was off the screen, and the drone acted normal again. For the past 2-3 flights i've noticed it seemed to be floating sideways on its own, coming close to trees, and not being able to stay in one spot and i have to counter-hold the joystick slightly to manually stabilize.
Is it possible a motor died and the drone was unable to stabilize before crashing?
What are my warranty/replacement options?
Any other ideas what happened? will attempt to upload flight record
