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After this, Amazon is under investigation delivery drone Reportedly hit an overhead internet cable in Texas.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it is investigating the retail giant Prime Air Delivery Service After the incident in Waco last week.
“On Tuesday, November 18, at approximately 12:45 p.m. local time, a MK30 drone collided with a wire in Waco, Texas,” the regulator said in a statement. The regulator said in a statement that it was “investigating” the incident.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said the agency is not investigating the incident.
One Amazon The spokesperson issued a statement saying: “This was not an accident.”
On November 18, after completing a delivery, a drone severed a thin, overhead Internet cable and then made a “safe crash landing” as designed, the spokesperson said, “with no injuries or widespread Internet service outages.”
Video footage reviewed by CNBC, which first reported the incident, showed one of Amazon’s MK 30 drones climbing through a customer’s yard after one of its six propellers became entangled in a utility line. The drone’s motors later shut down, resulting in a controlled landing.
This comes after the NTSB and FAA said in October that they would investigate a separate incident in which two Amazon Prime Air drones collided with a crane boom in Arizona.
Amazon began delivering prescription medications by drone to customers in College Station, Texas in 2023 in partnership with Amazon Pharmacy.
The e-commerce firm aims to deliver 500 million packages annually by drones by the end of 2030.
Earlier this year, Amazon announced plans Launches its first UK drone delivery service From its fulfillment center in Darlington, Durham.
If successful, Amazon said it would be rolled out widely across the country, pending planning permission and authorization from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
“We are ready and excited to make drone delivery a reality for our UK customers,” a spokesperson said at the time.
“We have created safe and reliable drone delivery services elsewhere in the world in close partnership with regulators and the communities we serve, and we are working to do the same in the UK.”
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