2 injured when drone malfunctions, crashes into Navy ship [View all]

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Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Two sailors were hurt when a drone malfunctioned and crashed into a guided missile cruiser off the coast of Southern California.

The sailors were treated for minor burns in the Saturday afternoon incident, said Lt. Lenaya Rotklein of the U.S. Third Fleet.

The ship, the USS Chancellorsville, was testing combat weapons system off the coast of Point Mugu.

The drone was being used to test the ship's radar tracking when it malfunctioned, veered out of control and struck the cruiser, she said.

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/17/us/drone-malfunction-duplicate-2/

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Bloomberg calculated in a 2012 survey that on average there were 9.31 accidents for every 100,000 hours of drone flight.

Nevertheless the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has resolved to push ahead with a plan to expand the use of drones in American airspace by 2015.

http://rt.com/usa/drone-crashes-missile-cruiser-852/