{"id":20632,"date":"2021-12-11T10:04:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T15:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=20632"},"modified":"2021-12-11T10:04:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T15:04:42","slug":"thames-valley-police-officer-lost-control-of-drone-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2021\/12\/11\/thames-valley-police-officer-lost-control-of-drone-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Thames Valley Police officer lost control of drone, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A police drone lost during a search operation was found miles away in a children’s playground, a report has said.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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An officer lost control of the drone near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire in April, and it was recovered 3.1 miles (5km) away the next day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Thames Valley Police said the drone, worth about \u00a37,500, was used after reports of an unlicensed music event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The force has said it has learned from the incident.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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An\u00a0Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report<\/a>\u00a0found the drone did not pick up a GPS signal when it was launched and so could not record its take-off point.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Investigators found it lost the connection with its controller and drifted in the wind.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It later landed automatically after being lost at Quarry Span Hill on 3 April at about 23:40 BST.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The AAIB found its pilot had not met the force’s own training requirements to operate drones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It said qualified users should fly the aircraft for a minimum of two hours within a rolling 90-day period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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If that is not met, they must undertake another course with a chief pilot or an instructor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The pilot had flown for 90 minutes in the 90 days before the Parrot Anafi USA drone was temporarily lost.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ch Insp Adrian Hall, from Thames Valley Police’s Joint Operations Unit, said “individual and organisational learning was identified” after the incident and has been addressed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The drone is back in use.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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