The DJI Phantom is the most popular drone ever made. It's cheap, light, and easy to use. It seems like everyone has one and therefore we have seen some hilarious crash videos with them. The Inspire 1 is a different beast though; it's the "professional choice" and it's very heavy and extremely rigid. This poor girl takes one to the face.
Jess Adams, an aspiring actress, was hit in the face by an Inspire 1. She believes that it wasn't a pilot error and was instead simply a strong gust of wind. Luckily for her, the drone wasn't moving quickly and the frame appears to hit her head before the blade gets tangled in her hair. She's extremely lucky that her face wasn't sliced by the propeller.
Jess went to the ER and only suffered a few scrapes and bruises. She has a fantastic perspective on the incident saying: "If you're gonna get hit in the face with a drone better at least be able to watch it and die laughing."
via TMZ
That is one lucky young woman to not get hit by the blades. Glad she is okay!
Wow...honestly, is she not so lucky that the propellers didn't cut her face? I mean, that's a model's livelihood in a big way. I'm glad everyone had fun with it -- don't get me wrong. But this could have been a VERY different story...
I honestly think the pilot probably meant to make the inspire shoot up so he jammed forward on the stick. Only to realize he jammed on the wrong stick and made the Inspire go forward instead of up.
Totally agree. Look at the video, her hair and clothes do not move from any sudden gust of wind. The pilot is an idiot for ever getting that close to her with it.
Ouch... Pretty sure I've seen (maybe even here, on FS?) drone propellers penetrating into a thick piece of swine like nobody's business.
I remember it being reported on here a while ago that Enrique Iglesias cut his hand open in concert when he decided it'd be a good idea to reach forward and touch a drone being operate by one of the photographers.
"Not pilot error" my left foot. The drone seems to go from a stationary hover to a forward motion in a distinct movement. I highly doubt that was a gust of wind. Perhaps someone flying by screen and unaware of just how close the drone was to the subject, miscalculating the wide angle perspective of the camera? Regardless, even if it was wind that caused the drone to move, the drone was way too close to start with. Very lucky to have escaped significant injury. Where it hit her, a skin laceration would have been a minor injury. She could have suffered permanent eye damage very easily.
Oh no!!! I hope it didn't get into water ;)))
It took me 3 months to master my Blade nano, and people think that, just because DJIs are easy to fly, there is no skills needed. She should sue that pilot just to teach the lesson. I wonder if he even has an insurance.
The wind had nothing to do with it. And the blades hit her first, not the frame.
This is why I won't let anyone fly drones around any of my models. About 6 years ago there was a young boy that was decapitated by a helicopter. Granted I know that the drones don't have the prop span that a remote control helicopter doe's but, they are still dangerous. This model could have had an eye sliced open. Even worse, had it hit her in the neck It could have severed a main artery. The props on these things have been known to be able to slice through pig skin. So, If you are going to fly a drone around any of your models then you better have good insurance.