An Amazon drone crash in Oregon set a wheat field ablaze
This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers.An Amazon drone crashed during a test flight in Oregon last summer, setting off a brush fire.Wing, a drone project from Amazon rival Google, has already completed at least 100,000 deliveries.
The drone's motors failed during the flight in June, the report said, causing it to plummet 160 feet to the ground. The report redacted Amazon's name but referred to the MK27 drone, the make and model of Amazon's experimental Prime Air delivery drone. Amazon said in a statement that no one had ever been injured or harmed as a result of the company's flight tests.
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