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April Predator accident was caused by power cable failure
Washington, USA - "The decision was made to crash it on pourpose"
On April 14, 2012 a General Atomics MQ-1 Predator hunter-killer drone-aircraft crashed in Afghanistan, Nangarhar province, because of an engine mishap. The commission investigating the event has reported that the aircraft crashed due to an unrecoverable engine failure, caused by "A single point failure of the ignition control system that caused both ignition circuits to lose ignition simultaneously". It...
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1145239
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency