Was flying real estate aerials for a client using their Mavic 2 Pro. Admittedly, got carried away and pushed the range of the flight, though I knew airspace was clear, doing a high orbit of an apartment complex amenity.
Suddenly lost signal and attempted to sprint closer to the drone to re-establish connectivity and locate a hovering drone, but it was no longer airborne. Found it crashed at the base of a 3-4 ft bush on the edge of a parking lot and the broken and swollen battered battery pack 10 ft away. Flight altitude was in the neighborhood of 150-200 ft.
Since settings were RTH with loss of signal, emergency landing at low battery, and clearance was sufficient to fly over any obstacles in an automatic RTH, I'm curious if this was a swollen battery pack (direct Florida sun) that dislodged, or some other failure. I've looked through the log on AirData but can't find an indication.
Also, lesson learned about losing line-of-sight for any amount of time. I'm sick to my stomach over how much worse it could've been.
Log is attached.
Thank you for any insights. I have resolved to be much more conservative in my flying.
Suddenly lost signal and attempted to sprint closer to the drone to re-establish connectivity and locate a hovering drone, but it was no longer airborne. Found it crashed at the base of a 3-4 ft bush on the edge of a parking lot and the broken and swollen battered battery pack 10 ft away. Flight altitude was in the neighborhood of 150-200 ft.
Since settings were RTH with loss of signal, emergency landing at low battery, and clearance was sufficient to fly over any obstacles in an automatic RTH, I'm curious if this was a swollen battery pack (direct Florida sun) that dislodged, or some other failure. I've looked through the log on AirData but can't find an indication.
Also, lesson learned about losing line-of-sight for any amount of time. I'm sick to my stomach over how much worse it could've been.
Log is attached.
Thank you for any insights. I have resolved to be much more conservative in my flying.