In this articleAMZN your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTAmazon's new MK30 Prime Air drone is displayed during Amazon's "Dering the Future" event at the company's BFI1 Fulfillment Center, Robotics Re and Development Hub in Sumner, Washington on Oct.
18, 2023.Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty ImagesAmazon is facing federal bes after two of its Prime Air dery drones collided with a crane in Arizona, mpting the company to temporarily pause drone service in the area.The incident occurred on Wednesday around 1 p.m.
EST in Tolleson, Arizona, a city west of Phoenix. Two MK30 drones crashed into the boom of a stationary construction crane that was in a commercial area just a few miles away from an Amazon warehouse.
No injuries were reported."We're aware of an incident involving two Prime Air drones in Tolleson, Arizona," Amazon spokesperson Terrence Clark said in a statement.
"We're currently working with the relevant authorities to investigate."Both drones sustained "substantial" damage from the collision on Wednesday, which occurred when the aircraft were mid-route, according to preliminary FAA crash reports.The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the incident.
The NTSB didn't immediately respond to a request for .Read more CNBC newsOpenAI wraps $6.6 billion sale at $500 billion valuationTokenization of real world assets is an unstoppable 'freight train' coming to major : Robinhood CEOTaiwan rejects U.S.
posal for '50-50′ chip duction, says trade talks focused on tariffsNASA employees on Artemis missions with SpaceX, Blue Origin to work through shutdownThe bes come just a few months after Amazon, in January, paused drone deries in Tolleson and College Station, Texas, temporarily ing two crashes at its Pendleton, Oregon, test site.
Those crashes also mpted investigations by the FAA and NTSB.
The company resumed deries in March after it said it had resolved issues with the drone's software, CNBC previously reported.For over a decade, Amazon has been working to bring to life founder Jeff Bezos' vision of drones whizzing toothpaste, books and batteries to customers' doorsteps in 30 minutes or less.
But gress has been slow, as Prime Air has only been made available in a handful of U.S.
cities.Amazon has set a goal to der 500 million packages by drone per year by the end of the decade.Tolleson police and fire departments didn't respond to a request for the Wednesday incident.watch now3:5403:54Google and Amazon race to upgrade AI voice assistants as OpenAI raises stakesCheck