Pushing the wrong button: Bad button placement leads to drone crashes
▻http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/pushing-the-wrong-button-bad-button-placement-leads-to-drone-crashes
Unmanned aircraft crash. In fact, they crash a lot—though there’s no recent specific data, the Congressional Research Service reported last year that despite improvements “the accident rate for unmanned aircraft is still far above that of manned aircraft.” And while many of those accidents can be attributed to hostile fire or terrible flight conditions, a significant percentage of drone crashes is caused by human error. A December 2004 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) study of Defense Department drone crashes found human factors to be a causal factor in about a third of the cases the researchers examined.