[GizaDog]

Really sad to see media trying to make UAV's look bad. Instead of investigating why it happened they just want to ban them.

Governments can use real drones to kill people and still allowed to continue the death and destruction.

People need to get some perceptive here. I've been flying over 11 years and not one issue ever!

[dbrannan]

It was most likely a licenced and insured pilot - looked like battery failure to me, but usually large unit (this was an X8) would have had dual batteries for redundancy. Being an X8 it would have dual motors and props, so if one failed it could still fly.

The media shouldn't blow this out of proportion - if quads are banned they will regret loosing such awesome aerial footage.

[ArcticCelt]

The main problem, as stated in the article, is that he was flying right above the head of the competitors instead of from a distance as he was suppose to do. But that cameraman/marketing company decided instead to go for the better angle, ignoring the risk for the competitors.