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Hello,

Today i was flying with my mavic, and suddenly, all motors stopped, and it drop from the sky (40m heigh). I was pushing both stick forward before it dropped. Battery was 79%, 12 gps, gps mode, 40 m height, 85m away and full in my sight. Just before it touched the ground, all the motors turned back on, but it was too late and now my mavic is completly destroyed. Can you tell me what happend ?
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Sorry for your crash, use this link to start the RMA process. The flight data analysis team will analyze the flight data recorder to determine the cause.
http://www.dji.com/support

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There have been a handful of reports like this from other people where a spontaneous power loss occurred. Please upload the DAT file from the flight to DropBox and provide a link to it in this thread and someone can look into it.

In the meantime, can you also tell us:

  • Was the battery still attached to the aircraft after the crash?
  • What date is returned when you enter your Mavic's serial number here?

In at least some of those other cases DJI has determined it to be a warranty problem and replaced the aircraft free of charge. Good luck.


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I had the exact same issue, or very similar anyway.  I updated, did a test flight, and all was well.  Turned the battery off, then on for the next flight.  Took off and all was well, until all of a sudden the aircraft began wobbling and falling.  I have already begun the repair process.  I own an S900 and a P3 Pro and am not a newbie.  Very concerned.
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DroneFlying Posted at 2017-5-20 06:36
There have been a handful of reports like this from other people where a spontaneous power loss occurred. Please upload the DAT file from the flight to DropBox and provide a link to it in this thread and someone can look into it.

In the meantime, can you also tell us:

My mavic is already boxed up for return or I would be happy to do that.  Is the DAT file on my iPad?  If yest I'd be happy to upload my file.  My battery was disconnected by the impact, I think.
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DroneFlying Posted at 2017-5-20 06:36
There have been a handful of reports like this from other people where a spontaneous power loss occurred. Please upload the DAT file from the flight to DropBox and provide a link to it in this thread and someone can look into it.

In the meantime, can you also tell us:

- Battery still attached after the crash, in fact even hard to unlock !
- Your Mavic Pro (08QDE3X01202GF) was manufactured on Friday, March, 31st 2017

Flight logs here :
http://www.phantomhelp.com/LogViewer/KPOZHIWLF1IPF8HB1X53/
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fans76b25369 Posted at 2017-5-20 07:16
My mavic is already boxed up for return or I would be happy to do that.  Is the DAT file on my iPad?  If yest I'd be happy to upload my file.  My battery was disconnected by the impact, I think.

The DAT file is only available on the Mavic itself. I think you can count on DJI to do the right thing and act accordingly, but if you want people here to analyze what happened we'd really need that DAT file.
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DroneFlying Posted at 2017-5-20 07:22
The DAT file is only available on the Mavic itself. I think you can count on DJI to do the right thing and act accordingly, but if you want people here to analyze what happened we'd really need that DAT file.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xx2hflsh43s1muy/FLY017.DAT?dl=0

I hope its the right DAT file, let me know
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DroneFlying Posted at 2017-5-20 07:22
The DAT file is only available on the Mavic itself. I think you can count on DJI to do the right thing and act accordingly, but if you want people here to analyze what happened we'd really need that DAT file.

Thank you.  Can you direct me to a link that tells me how to download the .dat file on the magic pro?  I will unbox and reboot it because I would love to receive your help.
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fans76b25369 Posted at 2017-5-20 07:33
Thank you.  Can you direct me to a link that tells me how to download the .dat file on the magic pro?  I will unbox and reboot it because I would love to receive your help.

I'll do my best, though BudWalker is the real expert around here. In any case, here's the link for accessing the DAT file:
https://datfile.net/DatCon/retrieveV3.html
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fansa5cc6b89 Posted at 2017-5-20 07:30
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xx2hflsh43s1muy/FLY017.DAT?dl=0

I hope its the right DAT file, let me know

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3wm7vyce6jy1pjg/FLY018.DAT?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hq9zsrmfmh6sat5/FLY019.DAT?dl=0
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fansa5cc6b89 Posted at 2017-5-20 07:20
- Battery still attached after the crash, in fact even hard to unlock !
- Your Mavic Pro (08QDE3X01202GF) was manufactured on Friday, March, 31st 2017

Active track?
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fans76b25369 Posted at 2017-5-20 07:16
My mavic is already boxed up for return or I would be happy to do that.  Is the DAT file on my iPad?  If yest I'd be happy to upload my file.  My battery was disconnected by the impact, I think.

I have the dat file, but how do I upload it?
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fans76b25369 Posted at 2017-5-20 07:16
My mavic is already boxed up for return or I would be happy to do that.  Is the DAT file on my iPad?  If yest I'd be happy to upload my file.  My battery was disconnected by the impact, I think.

Here is the DAT file for the last flight, I hope. :-)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fomi24amr1a3guz/FLY063.DAT?dl=0
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Active track at beginning -> lost subject, so i cancel activ track and try to come back normally. Then the craft dropped
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fans76b25369 Posted at 2017-5-20 08:07
Here is the DAT file for the last flight, I hope. :-)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fomi24amr1a3guz/FLY063.DAT?dl=0

That's a DAT file but it doesn't appear to be the one from the flight. The correct one will probably be pretty large.
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DroneFlying Posted at 2017-5-20 08:11
That's a DAT file but it doesn't appear to be the one from the flight. The correct one will probably be pretty large.

It is actually a DAT file.
You can run Viewer.exe in Assistant folder to open it.
C:\Program Files (x86)\DJI Product\DJI Assistant 2\Assistant
However, you may need to learn how to use and understand it.
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fansa5cc6b89 Posted at 2017-5-20 07:20
- Battery still attached after the crash, in fact even hard to unlock !
- Your Mavic Pro (08QDE3X01202GF) was manufactured on Friday, March, 31st 2017

Can you explain the warnings you were getting in English, forgive my ignorance, also the end of your flight recorded on PH is just right before it dropped I think, and yes it does show you pushing throttle and elevation forward.
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Reading your DAT file in Viewer, I noticed a drop in battery voltage.
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hallmark007 Posted at 2017-5-20 08:30
Can you explain the warnings you were getting in English, forgive my ignorance, also the end of your flight recorded on PH is just right before it dropped I think, and yes it does show you pushing throttle and elevation forward.

the warning were " tap to focus", "subject lost, unable to follow it, not able to identify it" and "unable to follow it, go closer and try again".

When i recoverd the craft, all leds were on, so still underpower. Unbelievable !
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laceyboy Posted at 2017-5-20 08:36
Reading your DAT file in Viewer, I noticed a drop in battery voltage.

there is also an "altitude_00" drop at the same point. Is it a real error ?

How could I avoid that ? I had no indication about that
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smh Posted at 2017-5-20 08:36
the warning were " tap to focus", "subject lost, unable to follow it, not able to identify it" and "unable to follow it, go closer and try again".

When i recoverd the craft, all leds were on, so still underpower. Unbelievable !

From your PH log it doesn't look like you did anything wrong, you had good signal good gps and no compass problem, but logs end very abruptly, and as lacyboy has pointed out problem with battery voltage, and I would suspect this also, but dji will make the final decision, I hope they decide in your favour.
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laceyboy Posted at 2017-5-20 08:36
Reading your DAT file in Viewer, I noticed a drop in battery voltage.

Thought maybe a bad reading on the current, that happens, but look the voltage reading dropped a bit with it.. That happened early in the flight from the looks of it. At the end it shows him using a lot of power (both sticks up) probably resulted in the failure, close to 10 amps bet hardware fail. Probably get it sorted under warranty.
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Yes, something strange definitely happened in the last second of your flight. As at least one person already pointed out, there were some drops in voltage late in the flight, but even more interesting is that the Electronic Speed Control (ESC) voltage on all four motors plummeted in the last second, which I believe is why your motors shut off. There's no obvious explanation for it since you clearly didn't initiate a CSC, so I believe this was caused by a product defect that will be covered under warranty. But again, the real expert on DAT file analysis is BudWalker and hopefully he'll weigh in on this too.
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What I am thinking from recent Mavic dropped out of the sky reports, and look at this specific DAT file there might be a BAD batch of batteries.
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laceyboy Posted at 2017-5-20 16:40
What I am thinking from recent Mavic dropped out of the sky reports, and look at this specific DAT file there might be a BAD batch of batteries.

You could be on to something!

Extra voltage for full forward and up puts big load on electronics which causes failure of power output resulting in threads like this hehe

Cheap fix if the batch can be identified, but how many crashes are waiting to happen?
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This is the reply of BudWalker on mavicpilots forum (http://mavicpilots.com/threads/m ... troyed.17101/page-2) :

@smh FLY017 and FLY018 are the files for this incident. The end of FLY017 shows that there was an abrupt loss of power just like several other incidents lately. This can be seen by looking at the motorVolts data where the volts dropped from around 11.5 to around 6.3 at the very end.

FLY018 is the next .DAT. By looking at the eventLogs for both FLY017 and FLY018 it's possible to estimate that the gap between the end of FLY017 and the start of FLY018 is about 4 seconds. Different data starts being reported at different times after the recording starts. The motor data didn't start until about 9 seconds into FLY018 so the motor restart that you reported wasn't captured,

FLY018 is abnormal in that the battery data isn't being recorded.
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smh Posted at 2017-5-21 00:04
This is the reply of BudWalker on mavicpilots forum (http://mavicpilots.com/threads/mavic-dropped-mid-air-destroyed.17101/page-2) :

@smh FLY017 and FLY018 are the files for this incident. The end of FLY017 shows that there was an abrupt loss of power just like several other incidents lately. This can be seen by looking at the motorVolts data where the volts dropped from around 11.5 to around 6.3 at the very end.

Should i send the also the battery back to DJI ? I dont want to use this battery anymore (in case if DJI send me a new drone under warranty)
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DroneFlying Posted at 2017-5-20 06:36
There have been a handful of reports like this from other people where a spontaneous power loss occurred. Please upload the DAT file from the flight to DropBox and provide a link to it in this thread and someone can look into it.

In the meantime, can you also tell us:

Exactly same problem I have had with my p4p. Motors just stopped whilst in flight and crashed to the ground. Ive sent my back to DJI to understand why it happened .
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Compo777 Posted at 2017-5-21 00:40
Exactly same problem I have had with my p4p. Motors just stopped whilst in flight and crashed to the ground. Ive sent my back to DJI to understand why it happened .

https://www.dropbox.com/s/afgsyd ... -05_FLY162.DAT?dl=0

Could Budwalker take a look at my p4p data log and see if he can establish why my p4p motors stopped at 70 ft and thus destroying my bird please. I know this is the mavic forum so do I need to put it on the phantom one ?
Thanks in advance
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smh Posted at 2017-5-21 00:08
Should i send the also the battery back to DJI ? I dont want to use this battery anymore (in case if DJI send me a new drone under warranty)

I would check with dji regarding sending battery back, sending faulty lipo battery through the post not a good idea.
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Compo777 Posted at 2017-5-21 00:48
https://www.dropbox.com/s/afgsyd2jy4y5ouj/2017-05-06_19-40-05_FLY162.DAT?dl=0

Could Budwalker take a look at my p4p data log and see if he can establish why my p4p motors stopped at 70 ft and thus destroying my bird please. I know this is the mavic forum so do I need to put it on the phantom one ?

It would appear that your P4P incident is a lot like what has been happening to some Mavics lately. There was an abrupt loss of power. This is best seen by looking at the motorVolts data which is sampled at 50 HZ. The battery data is sampled at 1 HZ and there is a 1.5 sec delay. At the very end of the recorded data the motorVolts dropped from about 15.5 volts to around 7.3 volts.
The .DAT you supplied seems to have been truncated. I had another FLY062.DAT that you had submitted under the name compo sometime around May 7. Not sure where I got that. Whenever I get the chance I acquire .DAT files for CsvView/DatCon development and testing.  



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BudWalker Posted at 2017-5-21 04:20
It would appear that your P4P incident is a lot like what has been happening to some Mavics lately. There was an abrupt loss of power. This is best seen by looking at the motorVolts data which is sampled at 50 HZ. The battery data is sampled at 1 HZ and there is a 1.5 sec delay. At the very end of the recorded data the motorVolts dropped from about 15.5 volts to around 7.3 volts.
The .DAT you supplied seems to have been truncated. I had another FLY062.DAT that you had submitted under the name compo sometime around May 7. Not sure where I got that. Whenever I get the chance I acquire .DAT files for CsvView/DatCon development and testing.

Just bought Mavic. Charged the batteries, launched into the air check.
Before takeoff, Mavic did not require a compass calibration, caught more than 10 satellites, recorded a return home point.
The green inscription "goto fly"
He took off. Got about 15 meters high, and then Mavic dragged into the building.
I did not have time to do anything, as he collided with the building and fell.

More than a year was Phantom 3 Adv. And now there is Phantom 3 Pro. There have never been such problems.

Log file with Mavic:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lrrschfhd6gzcpx/FLY002.DAT?dl=0
Please look, it's my fault, or not?

Thank you very much in advance
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fansa74cc3db Posted at 2017-5-21 11:18
Just bought Mavic. Charged the batteries, launched into the air check.
Before takeoff, Mavic did not require a compass calibration, caught more than 10 satellites, recorded a return home point.
The green inscription "goto fly"

Can you upload your flight log here http://www.phantomhelp.com/LogViewer/Upload/. And come back here and post the link you might get some help.
There are also a couple who might read your dat file.
Good luck.
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hallmark007 Posted at 2017-5-21 11:21
Can you upload your flight log here http://www.phantomhelp.com/LogViewer/Upload/. And come back here and post the link you might get some help.
There are also a couple who might read your dat file.
Good luck.

http://www.phantomhelp.com/LogViewer/O6USLZ3EJHOIKPN45EBW/

Only this file from the phone
And the previous one from the very Mavic
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fansa74cc3db Posted at 2017-5-21 11:48
http://www.phantomhelp.com/LogViewer/O6USLZ3EJHOIKPN45EBW/

Only this file from the phone

It looks like your Mavic lost gps and you couldn't control it and it crashed, you gps seemed to be very low right on the limit if not lower.
On strange thing at 25 seconds it says motor impeded, did it hit off something at that point.
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hallmark007 Posted at 2017-5-21 12:42
It looks like your Mavic lost gps and you couldn't control it and it crashed, you gps seemed to be very low right on the limit if not lower.
On strange thing at 25 seconds it says motor impeded, did it hit off something at that point.

On the 25th sec he touched the wall for the first time. After takeoff immediately began to drehjovat in the wall. I did not touch the stick. GPS - was
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fansa74cc3db Posted at 2017-5-21 11:18
Just bought Mavic. Charged the batteries, launched into the air check.
Before takeoff, Mavic did not require a compass calibration, caught more than 10 satellites, recorded a return home point.
The green inscription "goto fly"

There was more than one factor that contributed to this incident. The launch site was geomagnetically distorted which caused the Yaw value to be incorrect. GPS reception was also poor but didn't appear to be a significant factor. But, IMHO, the biggest problem is that that the Mavic didn't switch to ATTI mode when it should have. As a result the Mavic was in GPS_ATTI using an incorrect Yaw which then caused the erratic flight. If this had been a P3 the switch to ATTI would have been made and the pilot would have had a better chance at recovery.

At about 4.2 seconds and a relativeHeight 0f 0.3 Yaw and magYaw began to separate.  The separation got much worse at 12.4 secs and relativeHeight 26.8. The Mavic was in GPS_ATTI mode until 15 secs; that's 10 secs of GPS_ATTI with an incorrect Yaw. After the switch to ATTI at 15 secs the Mavic was responsive to stick inputs, but it was also drifting in the wind. This, and the previous erratic flight, probably made it appear the Mavic was unresponsive to stick inputs. Aileron and/or elevator inputs were applied in an attempt to fly the Mavic out of harms way, but they were too short to have enough effect.

From the accelerometer data (not shown) the impact with the wall occurred at 21 secs.




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BudWalker Posted at 2017-5-21 04:20
It would appear that your P4P incident is a lot like what has been happening to some Mavics lately. There was an abrupt loss of power. This is best seen by looking at the motorVolts data which is sampled at 50 HZ. The battery data is sampled at 1 HZ and there is a 1.5 sec delay. At the very end of the recorded data the motorVolts dropped from about 15.5 volts to around 7.3 volts.
The .DAT you supplied seems to have been truncated. I had another FLY062.DAT that you had submitted under the name compo sometime around May 7. Not sure where I got that. Whenever I get the chance I acquire .DAT files for CsvView/DatCon development and testing.

yes bud that was me who put that on the phantom site. Thx for your help though. I hope DJI repair it under warranty .
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BudWalker Posted at 2017-5-22 06:47
There was more than one factor that contributed to this incident. The launch site was geomagnetically distorted which caused the Yaw value to be incorrect. GPS reception was also poor but didn't appear to be a significant factor. But, IMHO, the biggest problem is that that the Mavic didn't switch to ATTI mode when it should have. As a result the Mavic was in GPS_ATTI using an incorrect Yaw which then caused the erratic flight. If this had been a P3 the switch to ATTI would have been made and the pilot would have had a better chance at recovery.

At about 4.2 seconds and a relativeHeight 0f 0.3 Yaw and magYaw began to separate.  The separation got much worse at 12.4 secs and relativeHeight 26.8. The Mavic was in GPS_ATTI mode until 15 secs; that's 10 secs of GPS_ATTI with an incorrect Yaw. After the switch to ATTI at 15 secs the Mavic was responsive to stick inputs, but it was also drifting in the wind. This, and the previous erratic flight, probably made it appear the Mavic was unresponsive to stick inputs. Aileron and/or elevator inputs were applied in an attempt to fly the Mavic out of harms way, but they were too short to have enough effect.

Thank you for the detailed answer. But I did not understand the most important thing:
I have a sense to send Mavic in warranty repair? Or is the incident entirely the driver's fault?
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