{"id":85947,"date":"2020-08-17T16:50:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T06:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/?p=85947"},"modified":"2020-08-17T16:50:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T06:50:52","slug":"apt-attack-bald-eagle-downs-egle-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/2020\/08\/apt-attack-bald-eagle-downs-egle-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"Apt attack: Bald eagle downs \u2018EGLE\u2019 drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_85948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85948\" style=\"width: 1170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-post-85947 wp-image-85948 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1280px-dji_phantom_drone-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1280px-dji_phantom_drone-1-770x420.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1280px-dji_phantom_drone-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1280px-dji_phantom_drone-1-770x420.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1280px-dji_phantom_drone-1-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1280px-dji_phantom_drone-1-768x434.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJI Phantom (Wikicommons\/TheSachuHopes).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A drone belonging to the US state of Michigan\u2019s Environment, Great Lakes &amp; Energy (EGLE) department was unexpectedly lost over Lake Michigan on Friday \u2013 after being attacked by a bald eagle.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement released by the agency, EGLE environmental quality analyst and drone pilot Hunter King was about seven minutes into mapping shoreline erosion in the area when the incident took place.<\/p>\n<p>The Phantom 4 Pro Advanced drone, worth some US$950, was not recovered despite searches conducted with the craft&#8217;s telemetric data. The aircraft was found to have lost one of its propellors while spiralling from the skies, and had subsequently sunk to the bottom of the lake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The attack could have been a territorial squabble with the electronic foe, or just a hungry eagle,&#8221; reads the light-hearted report released to EGLE&#8217;s website. &#8220;Or maybe it did not like its name being misspelled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The agency&#8217;s drone division is considering steps to reduce the possibility of a repeat attack, including the possibility of using &#8220;skins&#8221; or other designs on the aircraft to make them look less like seagulls.<\/p>\n<p>While bird attacks on drones remain uncommon, they have been reported in North America (and, to a greater extent, Australia).<\/p>\n<p>And in a short-lived experiment announced in 2016, police in the Netherlands even went so far as to train eagles to take down rogue drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drone belonging to the US State of Michigan&#8217;s Environment, Great Lakes &#038; Energy (EGLE) department was ironically attacked by a bald eagle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2729,"featured_media":85948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,1],"tags":[204,1379,1998],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85947"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85972,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85947\/revisions\/85972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}