Check this vid I just watched on youtube....Not mine but a horror flight and am not even sure what country this was in , the flight finally ended after it plunged from 113 mtrs .
Skip to the action at the 420min mark.

Whoa!   Wonder what the heck went wrong....

That is THE most bizarre flight video I have ever seen!

Personally, I would have brought it down after the first mishap!

What was weird.

Every time I see one of these I sing "Ground Control to Major Tom..."

It looks like a coal power station and the chimney is venting a huge amount of heat which he flew straight into.I reckon at one point the pilot would be thinking I'm gonna make it!!!  LOL

If you land at the first sign of trouble, (called  a clue) you'll live to fly another day. Some of the guys fly like they have an extra $1.300 sitting in the bank to buy another bird. If that's the case, great..

what the heck happened?

he flew through plumes of steam. over heating, moisture buildup. its impossible to say what exactly went wrong

Why didn't you fly on the up wind side instead of in the smoke and or heat?

jag01usn Posted at 2015-11-14 17:52
Why didn't you fly on the up wind side instead of in the smoke and or heat?

He wasn't flying.  He said it was not his video.

rodger Posted at 2015-11-10 06:40
Personally, I would have brought it down after the first mishap!

My thoughts exactly. Should have brought it down when control was recovered the first time. At the very least, the second time.

Rocket_Aus Posted at 2015-11-10 11:18
It looks like a coal power station and the chimney is venting a huge amount of heat which he flew st ...

Aloha Rocket,

     I swear, at one point he looks like he is flying upside down.  How can that even be videoed?  

Aloha and Drone On!

Rigworker Posted at 2015-11-15 02:24
My thoughts exactly. Should have brought it down when control was recovered the first time. At the ...

If one of my Quads burps, it comes down. I would rather bring it down than have it fall out of the sky and the possibility of hurting someone or their property. Actually  if there are people around I bring it down and move on. My fear is that if there was a problem and the fail safes didn't kick in and it went on it's own. That would bother to no end!

Cetaman Posted at 2015-11-15 16:11
Aloha Rocket,

     I swear, at one point he looks like he is flying upside down.  How can that ev ...

exactly! he was flying upside down! how does it even happened ?

I'm always a bit surprised how quickly people are to criticise.
1) It looked to me like he was trying to bring the bird down after the initial loss of control (it was certainly in descent from the time of the initial incident).
2) Clearly there were control issues. (Inverted flight???) so the pilot may have not had lots of choice as to where or how the aircraft was flying

It certainly a crazy bit of footage.