The United States Aviation Agency (FAA) is investigating Amazon after one of the company’s delivery drones downed an internet cable in central Texas last week.
“An MK30 drone struck a line in Waco, Texas, at approximately 12:45 pm local time on Tuesday, November 18,” the regulator said in a statement to Reuters, adding that it “is investigating” this incident.
On Nov. 18, after completing a delivery, a drone cut a thin, overhead internet cable and then performed a “contingent safe landing” as designed, an Amazon spokesperson told Reuters in an email response, adding that “there were no injuries or widespread disruptions to internet service.”
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Video footage reviewed by CNBC, which first reported the incident, showed one of Amazon’s MK30 drones rising from a customer’s yard when one of its six propellers became caught in a cable. Then, the drone’s engines were turned off, resulting in a controlled descent.
This comes after the FAA said in October it will investigate a separate incident in which two Amazon Prime Air drones crashed into a crane in Arizona.
Amazon began using drones to make drug deliveries in College Station, Texas, in 2023.
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The e-commerce company aims to deliver 500 million packages annually by drone by the end of 2030.
