{"id":6965,"date":"2010-08-31T00:25:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T06:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6965"},"modified":"2010-08-25T20:40:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T02:40:27","slug":"uav-gets-lost-flies-to-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/31\/uav-gets-lost-flies-to-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"UAV Gets Lost, Flies to DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <em>Navy Times<\/em>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/2010\/08\/navy-uav-enters-dc-082510\/\">US Navy UAV got &#8220;lost&#8221; and entered the restricted airspace<\/a> around Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to a Navy statement, the incident took place Aug. 2 when, about 75 minutes into a routine test flight, an MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter operating out of the Patuxent River test facilities in southern Maryland lost its control link with ground operators.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft then flew about 23 miles on a north-by-northwest course and entered the National Capital Region restricted airspace, part of the Air Defense Identification Zone surrounding Washington, D.C.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most UAVs are programmed with &#8220;lost link&#8221; procedures that command the UAV into a preplanned flight profile if it loses contact with its ground station.\u00a0 According to the article, an &#8220;anomaly&#8221; prevented this failsafe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Navy Times, a US Navy UAV got &#8220;lost&#8221; and entered the restricted airspace around Washington, DC. According to a Navy statement, the incident took place Aug. 2 when, about 75 minutes into a routine test flight, an MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter operating out of the Patuxent River test facilities in southern Maryland lost its control link [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[930,2,36,53],"class_list":["post-6965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-fire-scout","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}