NASA · Aviation Safety Reporting System
Government UAS pilot reported a fly away of a UAS due to a malfunction in multiple electronic speed controllers.
What is ASRS?
The Aviation Safety Reporting System is NASA's voluntary, confidential, non- punitive incident-reporting system, established 1976. Pilots, controllers, dispatchers, and maintenance technicians file reports describing safety- relevant events. NASA de-identifies every report before adding it to the public database. Reports are not investigated by NASA, the FAA, or the NTSB — they represent the reporter's perspective.
Pilot narrative
Verbatim from the de-identified NASA record. First-person account by the
reporter. NASA strips identifying details (names, company, specific time);
anonymization placeholders are ZZZ,
X, Y.
DJI Mavic 3T Flight Log - During Flight Battery Current: 5.828 - Flight Time: 12 minutes 23.5 seconds Battery Current: 16.508 - Flight Time: 12 minutes 23.7 seconds Electronic Speed Controller (ESC) 2 Overload - Flight Time: 12 minutes 47.3 seconds Sensor System Error - Flight Time: 12 minutes 47.7 seconds GPS Position Mismatch - Flight Time: 12 minutes 48.3 seconds Electronic Speed Controller (ESC) 2 Short-Circuited - Flight Time: 12 minutes 49.3 seconds Battery - 55%
NASA classification — Anomalies
- Aircraft Equipment Problem
- Inflight Event / Encounter
NASA classification — Assessments
- Contributing Factors / Situations
- Aircraft · Software and Automation
- Primary Problem
- Ambiguous
ASRS reports are voluntarily submitted, de-identified by NASA, and represent the reporter's perspective. The presence of reports on a topic cannot be used to infer prevalence in the National Airspace System. The authoritative source is the NASA ASRS Database Online at asrs.arc.nasa.gov ↗.