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Google's solar-fuelled cyber drone crashes at test site

Published Mon, Jun 1, 2015 · 09:50 PM
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A PROTOTYPE of the massive solar-powered drone Google Inc plans to build as a platform for delivering Internet service from the sky was destroyed in a crash at a New Mexico test site.

The unmanned Solara 50 fell to the ground shortly after take-off on May 1 and the US National Transportation Safety Board is investigating, Keith Holloway, an agency spokesman, said in an interview. The accident occurred at a private airstrip east of Albuquerque and no one was injured, he added.

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