Drone just fell out of the sky

[telliott67]

Has anyone or heard off this, I was flying my Phantom 3 Professional and battery was at 53% and it went into return home mode, and I was high enough off the ground and just all of a sudden it just dropped out of the sky! Watch the last 20 seconds of the flight and you tell me

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[msinger]

If you post your DAT flight log, someone here can review it to see if it indicates what happened. If needed, you can find instructions for retrieving that flight log here.

 

[llyons92]

My drone fell out of the sky on Saturday. Know how it feels. Sorry for your loss. Hopefully dji helps you out.


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[moswissa]

Has anyone or heard off this, I was flying my Phantom 3 Professional and battery was at 53% and it went into return home mode, and I was high enough off the ground and just all of a sudden it just dropped out of the sky! Watch the last 20 seconds of the flight and you tell me

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I'm going to take an educated guess and say you launched with less than a full charge and went into a critical voltage state because DJIs POS intelligent overpriced battery can't handle a flight that doesn't start off full charge.

 

[mediccj]

Prop came off...?

 

[Susruth]

To look at the brighter side of it the bird didnt kill anyone

 

[With The Birds]

I dont know if the prop gaurds acted as some sort of stanilisation device, i cant figure out how i seemed to right itself towards the end of the clip...

 

[Comte de Bleuville]

Weird that the video paused at 11 seconds and then started up again once it began falling.

 

[FantomFlier]

Weird that the video paused at 11 seconds and then started up again once it began falling.

Loose battery connection?

 

[Comte de Bleuville]

Loose battery connection?

I'm no expert, but that definitely makes me think it's some kind of electrical malfunction.

 

[telliott67]

No prop didn't come off


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[telliott67]

No battery issue earthier I'm trying to down load flight records but having problems


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[telliott67]

Battery was at full charge at the begin of flight it was at 53% when it was in return home mode when it belly flopped the battery was at 34%


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[telliott67]

This is how I found it


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[flyNfrank]

No battery issue earthier I'm trying to down load flight records but having problems


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I can help if you want to post the .TXT file found on the device used for the GO app. You can put that file in a folder and zip it. Then just attach the zipped folder in a post here just as if you were attaching a image.

By watching the video it looks like it was regaining control. Maybe if the R/C was at that point full throttle it may have not crashed. Hard to say?

 

[flyNfrank]

This is how I found it


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There doesn't appear to be much damage at least.

 

[Brew132]

Did you go into return to home yourself, glitch into it, or automatically go in?

 

[Meta4]

No battery issue earthier I'm trying to down load flight records but having problems

Go to https://www.phantomhelp.com/LogViewer/Upload/
Follow the instructions to upload your flight record.
Come back and post a link to the report it provides and someone might be able to analyse it and give you an understanding of the cause of the incident

 

[kdrak]

May by an ESC. Did you check if motors work ?

 

[Wibble]

Nothing to do with what happened but why are you using prop guards? They add so much drag.