# My first Crash after just over a year of flying

**URL:** <https://greyarro.ws/t/my-first-crash-after-just-over-a-year-of-flying/67723>\
**Category:** General Drone Discussion\
**Created:** [5 September 2023 23:09 UTC](https://greyarro.ws/t/my-first-crash-after-just-over-a-year-of-flying/67723 "2023-09-05T23:09:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![SkyOkapi](https://greyarro.ws/user_avatar/greyarro.ws/skyokapi/32/175542_2.png) [@SkyOkapi](https://greyarro.ws/u/SkyOkapi)\
**Post date:** [5 September 2023 23:09 UTC](https://greyarro.ws/t/my-first-crash-after-just-over-a-year-of-flying/67723/1 "2023-09-05T23:09:57Z")

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I was doing a gutter inspection with my Mini 3 Pro plus some general photography for the charity I volunteer with (a London Youth Club and Community Centre with food bank). My spotter had just said “ah, birds” as a flock of pigeons out of nowhere was all around the drone. Within a second a pigeon collided with the drone and it dropped out of the sky. The collision folded in the right rear rotor arm (causing the crash) . It landed in some longish grass just missing a giant container full of asbestos covered in a tarp. Only damage was one cracked prop. Sadly I wasn’t shooting video at the time.

A reminder that even a super reliable carefully pre-flight checked drone can fall to the ground at any time without warning. Insure them and avoid flying over people wherever possible.

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**Author:** ![milkmanchris](https://greyarro.ws/user_avatar/greyarro.ws/milkmanchris/32/237713_2.png) [@milkmanchris](https://greyarro.ws/u/milkmanchris)\
**Post date:** [6 September 2023 06:09 UTC](https://greyarro.ws/t/my-first-crash-after-just-over-a-year-of-flying/67723/2 "2023-09-06T06:09:25Z")

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> [@SkyOkapi](#):
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> Sadly I wasn’t shooting video at the time.

We feel your loss, but given the rules of the internet without photos or video it never happened ;o)