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Suspected Battery Fire at Terra Drone Indonesia Kills 22

S5 · 12/09
2025 · Terra Drone · Jakarta office, Indonesia

Record

CompanyTerra Drone
Categorydrones evtol
Typefire
Date12/09
2025
Time of daynot documented
LocationJakarta office, Indonesia
SeverityS5 (fatality or catastrophic loss)
Scale22 fatalities
Confidencehigh
VerificationYes - adversarially checked against the cited source
SourcesUAS News

What happened

A fire at Terra Drone's Jakarta, Indonesia office, suspected to have been caused by a falling stack of damaged drone batteries, killed 22 people; Terra Drone's CEO was subsequently arrested and named a suspect in the incident.

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