Facebook drone crashes as part of Zuckerberg's dream to bring internet to everyone
The National Transportation Safety Board is looking into an accident involving an enormous experimental drone belonging to Facebook which crashed earlier this year. The drone was built to bring internet to far-flung parts of the planet and designed to hover 60,000 ft above the surface of the Earth. However, in June the drone known as Aquila, ended up plummeting to earth after suffering a'structural failure' as it was coming into land. No one was hurt in the incident. The drone, called Aquila, suffered from a'structural failure' right before it landed According to Bloomberg the crash is one of several hiccups that the social network has faced in recent months, following an explosion earlier this year that destroyed one of its satellites.
Nov-22-2016, 11:10:03 GMT
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