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WARNING: FOUL LANGUAGE. My DJI Mavic crashed during a battery failure over a Toyota warehouse in Ontario California. I was nearly a mile away when this happened and in a No Fly Zone! Toyota security would not allow us to go on top of the building to retrieve the Drone. They also would not allow me on the property to fly my Inspire drone to attempt a rescue of the mavic Drone. So I told security I will fly a drone to pick up the other drone while not on their property and Toyota security told us we can't even do that! WTF! So I decided to do it anyway! Never buying a Toyota vehicle now! So how was I going to do this. I have never done anything like this before. It is not in the DJI Manuals lol I was not even sure my Inspire was strong enough to pick up a Mavic. This required some LOL Logic Or Luck! I took a tie-down strap and cut it to about 5 feet in length. This was a windy weekend here in SoCal as you could tell by all the fires that caused blackouts here in California. My first 2 attempts were complete failures in 25-35 MPH winds. I nearly lost the Inspire. So I cut a tie-down strap to about 2 feet and I attached it to my DJI Inspire 1 drone. Using my DJI inspire I flew over to the Toyota building and made an attempt to grab the Drone. After the 2 failed attempts during high winds I decided to wait until the next morning when the winds would be more calm. With winds down from 35mph to a doable 10mph I decided to go for it. It was still windy but I wanted my drone. The hook dangling from the drone created a wobbly flight situation which required my undivided attention. The thought of the day before when I nearly lost my Inspire was still fresh in my mind. The strap hit the one of the propellers several times. This time I had cut the strap to a much shorter length which helped solve the swinging issue but created a new issue. The Inspire was going to lower the landing gear as I got close to the Mavic and the wind created by the Inspire was going to create a floating effect similar to ground effect. This was going to be tricky. In this dramatic rescue you will see that I grabbed the wrong arm, (The thumbnail pic was not the same arm as I could not duplicate the scenario without the drone falling) which meant that the Drone could fall at any time. I wanted to grab the arm that had the longer feet as that would be more to grab on to with my hook. Well I grabbed the wrong arm and with the battery low I went for it. I was nervous and this caused me to over correct, which induced a tourette type foul language response. Sorry about that. I was able to pick up the Mavic and fly the Inspire back, rescuing my Mavic drone and get the chip which had important video for a documentary about the Las Vegas Massacre I was working on. The largest mass shooting in United States history that happened on 10/01/2017 and we needed that footage for the film now called "Lost Vegas". The Maverick drone is trashed but what was more important was the footage that I had on the chip that was on that drone. I had to have the Drone. No one was going to stop me from getting that drone. I was flying in a no-fly zone, over the top of a building in which I was told not to fly over due to their security concerns, doing something I had never done. I don't know why the battery just died on me during a flight. I am happy to have my Mavic back but sad as it was my go to drone when I needed to get up and running fast. If you lose a drone don't give up hope. Using the find my drone feature on the DJI Go software I was able to not only find my DJI Mavic drone, I was able to rescue my Mavic using my DJI Inspire. I don't recommend doing what I did but I felt I had no other option. PS: I have DJI Mavic for sale, slightly damaged and needs a new gimbal. LOL If you have questions feel free to email me at either miketurber@gmail.com or 5x5news@protonmail.com Thanks for watching and please give me a thumbs up and share this video.
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