Hi, one of my team members ran into an issue with their Air 2s that caused it to crash. In short, they launched on 30% battery, received a notification of the battery being critically low at 10%, and accepted the RTH prompt. The drone was not very far away and still within line of sight, but after it was over halfway back it suddenly turned left, and ultimately crashed with 8% battery left. I have their write-up below for what happened in their words, and I have the flight log that I will link to.
Would somebody be able to help me translate the flight log to figure out what happened to make it crash? Was it opperator error, a battery error, a RTH glitch? I would like to avoid a future crash like this down the line.
https://www.phantomhelp.com/logviewer/7NY0M36YLLR2LSQP6IFG/
Date of Flight: November 22nd
Location: Eastville VA Environment: open flat field near a residential house and body of water
55 degrees and sunny; 2mph wind NW
During my flight on November 22nd at roughly 3 PM I received a notification that the battery was nearing ‘critical low’ (10%) with a prompt to return to home and land. I immediately agreed ‘yes’ to this operation. I stood by and waited for it to return, with eyes on it in the sky. When the drone was over halfway to the home point, it veered off course and took a hard left, before plummeting to the ground from a 100 or so feet off the ground. In the time in began going off course, I began moving toward it with eyes still on it, to get a better look at what was happening. I did not touch the controls to intervene. The area in which it landed was in front of the house to the right of a short clump of dead trees. It did not hit the trees (they were not in the path of home), but rather fell 10 feet from them. I'm not sure if this is noteworthy but, in the previous flight that day I received the same ‘return to home’ prompt at 17% and landed safety. However, during this 2nd flight I was not prompted until 10% battery. I’m not sure why it didn't prompt earlier but when it plummeted it was at 9% battery.
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