Amazon Delivery Drone Crashes into Texas Apartment Building

“You can hear the hum of the drone,” says a local newscaster, “but then the propellors come into contact with the building, chunks of the drone later seen falling down. The next video shows the drone on the ground, surrounded by smoke…

“Amazon tells us there was minimal damage to the apartment building, adding they are working with the appropriate people to handle any repairs.” But there were people standing outside, notes the woman who filmed the crash, and the falling drone “could’ve hit them, and they would’ve hurt.”

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Cesarina Johnson, who captured the collision from her window, told USA TODAY that the collision seemed to happen “almost immediately” after she began to record the drone in action… “The propellers on the thing were still moving, and you could smell it was starting to burn,” Johnson told Fox 4 News. “And you see a few sparks in one of my videos. Luckily, nothing really caught on fire where it got, it escalated really crazy.” According to the outlet, firefighters were called out of an abundance of caution, but the “drone never caught fire….”

Amazon employees can be seen surveying the scene in the clip. Johnson told the outlet that firefighters and Amazon workers worked together to clean up before the drone was loaded into a truck.
Another local news report points out Amazon only began drone delivery in the area late last year.

The San Antonio Express News points out that America’s Federal Aviation Administration “opened an investigation into Amazon’s drone delivery program in November after one of its drone struck an Internet cable line in Waco.”