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‘Stop saying ‘uh-oh’ while you’re flying’: Drone crash pilot quotes unveiled

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/06/23/stop-saying-uh-oh-while-youre-flying-drone-crash-pilot-quotes-unveiled/

Some are darkly funny, some are scary.  The context behind some of those are in the following two articles:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/06/20/when-drones-fall-from-the-sky/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/06/22/crashes-mount-as-military-flies-more-drones-in-u-s/

All this to say that flying UAVs aren't like playing video games and yes, they can do some damage if things go south.
 
;D That made my night. Reminds me of IFR training in the Simulator.
 
“Stop saying ‘uh-oh’ while you’re flying. It’s never good. Like going to the dentist or a doctor.  . . . ‘Oops? What the f— you mean ‘Oops?’ “
Unidentified camera operator, to a habitually nervous Predator pilot right before takeoff at Jalalabad Air Base on July 24, 2012.

“Whoa. . . . I don’t know what the hell just happened.”
The same nervous Predator pilot, moments later, after the drone crashed.

I chuckled.
 
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