This crazy video from the World Cup in Italy shows a rather large drone crashing just behind a skier as he raced down the course. The drone is said to have been shooting video for the TV program and lost connection with the operator.
What an incredible close miss on this crash!
The “a skier” is Marcel Hirscher from Austria, world cup leader in slalom, he was irritated by the crash but managed to finish on second place. The drone pilot was registered and allowed to use it in a corridor away from the course. In the second run he ignored the corridor which led to this almost fatal crash.
Thanks for the extra details Christian.
Now, THAT’s a photo-bomb!
How can it be that the reason for crashing was due to a loss of connectivity with the operator? don’t these particular drones have any safe “return to home” or “hovering and land” embedded command?
This accident will cause a lot of bad comments against drone operators and drones themselves and I suppose there’s the need to understand better what was going on.