DJI has discover that one of its radio-controlled aircraft product is have issues that are causing some to plummet from the sky .
The company issue a warning on Friday :
DJI is aware of a small number of reports involving drones in the Matrice 200 series that have fall back power mid - flight . Flight refuge and product reliability are top priority . Our engineers are soundly review each client case and working to address this matter urgently .
A DJI representative say Gizmodo they could not say how many drones had fall back power mid - flight of steps as the fellowship is currently go over cases and some “ seem unrelated to the powerfulness problem . ”
DJI release the Matrice 200 in 2017 . The fellowship promotes it as an idealistic drone forsearch and rescue purpose and industrial inspections . In June , Taser maker Axon announcedit was teaming up with DJI to modify Matrice 200 serial drones , among other UAVs , into surveillance drones for practice of law enforcement
The DJI release about the falling drones tell that their drones “ are test for thousand of hours ” and the legal age of users have “ minimal commotion . ” The company say it is “ wait to implement extra safeguards ” and recommends that client update their firmware for their drones and batteries through the DJI app or DJI Assistant 2 software system .
Updated 12:15pm EST : add up gossip from DJI spokesperson .
[ DJI , CCAviaBBC ]
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