U.K. Air Accident Investigators Using UAVs To Examine Crash Sites

LONDON—Britain’s Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) is using small lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to conduct surveys of accident sites. The UAVs, the first of which was purchased two years ago, have now been used at the site of 16 crashes around the U.K., said Stuart Hawkins, a...

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