Phantom 4 Crash

[jmucasey2005]

Hello,

I am writing today to see if what happened to me has happened to anyone else.

I have a Phantom 4 that I purchased in June of 2017. I have made many flights and consider myself a "skilled" pilot.

I took off and ascended to a height of 252 feet. Suddenly the drone fell from the sky. The entire flight was less than 40 seconds.

The drone is a total loss. I have uploaded the flight log to airdata. That link is here.

Has this happened to anyone else? What could cause this? I did not see it hit a bird, nor does it appear as if it were shot down.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Fly Dawg]

Has this happened to anyone else? What could cause this? I did not see it hit a bird, nor does it appear as if it were shot down.

This could be another case of battery dislodge, can't tell for certain from this but your battery current dropped from 22 amps to 1 amp in 100ms.....Please upload your .txt data file from your device to the link below. Might be able to give you a better answer from that. Instructions are on the link. Provide a link to you upload back here.

DJI Flight Log Viewer - Phantom Help

 

[Fly Dawg]

Looking again at the original data, I would say that this is definitely a battery disconnect, but without accelerometer and/or motor data, it is not 100% certain. From this data however I would conclude at least a 90% probability of that.