Amazon to resume drone delivery following crash in Arizona

Starting on Friday, Amazon will resume its drone delivery service in Arizona as two federal agencies are under investigation earlier this week.

The Amazon operation has been suspended in the western valley of the Phoenix Metro – it is currently the only commercial market – after crush on Wednesday. Two of the company’s Prime Air Delivery Drons clashed with a crane boom near its same day site in Arizona’s Tolson, which was devastated to them.

Amazon is providing a package weighing five pounds to customers through its prime air drone service Fenix From November 2024.

Amazon spokesman Terns Clark said the company would continue to support “the ongoing review by the relevant agencies.” The National Transport Protection Board and the Federal Aviation Administration announced Thursday that the accident was under investigation.

“Protection is our highest priority, and we have completed the internal review of this event and confident that there is no problem with their supporting technology,” Clark said in an emailed statement. “Nevertheless, we launched additional processes such as extended visual landscape inspections for better monitors for running obstacles like cranes.”

The program has been facing several pushing for years, including Departure Among the main executives, since the agency moves aimed at using drones to provide 500 million packages every year at the end of the decade.

Amazon has stopped testing his drones after that Mid-Bayu confrontation Two models in Oregon were involved in December 2021. At the time, Amazon said that it would postpone a software update in the drone fleet in college stations, Texas and Arizona. There is no operation at Amazon and College Station.

Amazon also won one or two with the approval of the US Federal Aviation Administration Its delivery drones fly in a long distanceThe In May 2024, this approval removed a regulatory barrier, allowing Amazon to expand its Prime Air Service. Amazon has earlier said that they plan to extend Prime Air Delivery services in Richardson, San Antonio and Walko in Texas, including sites planned for Detroit and Kansas City across the country.