Hexcopter crash filiming Gold Rush

[Hands0n]

Found on YouTube today

http://youtu.be/4tRYVyMIZ4s

[n506]

Can';t say I have a lot of faith in someone operating a drone at around 8-9 feet in the air who takes his hands off the controls to wipe his forehead at 0:39...

Doesn';t look like it was a prop failure because there was no horrendous vibration in the visible part of the gear that came into view. It kinda just looks like either control inputs or flight controller automated decisions resulted in the craft ending up at 45 degrees or so, and without a vast increase in throttle, it didn';t have enough uplift to maintain altitude.

I';ve had a KK2.0 lose its idea of where level is once while in self-levelling mode and you';ve got to be quick to get it into manual and correct it. I now know I made the mistake of holding it while switching it on rather than putting it on the ground and booting it.

Even with the fancy flight controllers though, too many of these filming guys act like these things are just fancy camera jibs and will stay exactly where they';re put.

[Cloudbuster]

Ooooppss !!!!! 

[nub]

awww unlucky, the guy looked pretty broken up at the end.