An innocent drone has crashed after being attacked by an aggressive Scottish black-headed gull.
The remote-controlled craft, a DJI Matrice M200 quadcopter, was being flown over Stranraer Academy in Dumfries and Galloway when the avian terror struck without warning.
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The Air Accidents Investigation Branch said, in a report published today, that the Matrice "was being operated commercially on a roof survey of a large building in a built-up area," an entirely routine flight, when Mother Nature struck.
"The UAS flew out on the first [survey] track before returning on the second when a gull flew over the pilot from behind and attacked it," recounted the AAIB. The drone's pilot desperately tried to take manual control of the craft as the maddened bird, perhaps offended ..
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