Amazon suspends US drone deliveries following crash at testing facility

Amazon has halted testing of its delivery drones after a crash involving two of its models, According to In Bloomberg. It’s the latest setback for Amazon’s beleaguered Prime Air ProgramIt aims to deliver around 500 million packages a year to customers by the end of this decade.

Bloomberg reported that two Amazon drones crashed in rainy weather at a test facility in Pendleton, Oregon, in December. In another incident in September, drone operators employed by the company were testing how the drones would perform if one of their propellers failed, according to Bloomberg, and accidentally launched two test flights at once — causing the drones to collide.

Amazon said it would suspend drone deliveries in Texas and Arizona, where it has commercial drone operations, pending a software update to its drone fleet, according to Bloomberg.

Amazon’s drone program has faced numerous setbacks departure Chief Executives. Amazon last April the end Prime Air will run drone delivery operations in California, though the company has plans expand Its drone delivery tests abroad.