Following the FAA’s warning that over 7,500 unmanned drones will be in US Airspace in the next five years, we thought news of yet another domestic drone down was noteworthy. Just a couple fo months ago we reported the crash (and self-destruction) of 2 drones in Florida, and now officials at the 174th Attack Wing suspended all Reaper drone flights in Central New York Tuesday after one of the unmanned aircraft crashed into Lake Ontario about 12 miles from the eastern shore during a routine training flight. As WNYF TV reports, the drone – one of four based at Fort Drum – was operated remotely from near Syracuse. Officials are investigating the crash but added, in some hope of reassurance, “the mission was going as advertised, up to the point where we did lose control of the airplane.”
