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Wing delivery drone lands on power lines, catches fire, cuts power to 2,000 homes

S3 · 09/30
2022 · ~14:00 AEST · Wing · Browns Plains, QLD, Australia

Record

CompanyWing
Categorydrones evtol
Typefire
Date09/30
2022
Time of day~14:00 AEST
LocationBrowns Plains, QLD, Australia
SeverityS3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault)
Scale1 drone; ~2,000 homes affected
Confidencemedium
VerificationCited source on file; not independently re-verified
SourceDroneDJ

What happened

A Wing delivery drone made a precautionary landing on 11,000-volt electrical lines in Browns Plains, Queensland, Australia, catching fire and knocking out power to about 2,000 households for 45 minutes (300 for up to 3 hours) before the drone burned and fell to the ground.

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