The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is said to be probing Amazon (AMZN) after one of its delivery drones downed an internet cable in central Texas last week.
“A MK30 drone struck a wire line in Waco, Texas, around 12:45 p.m. local time on Tuesday, November 18,” the regulator said in a statement to Reuters, adding that it “is investigating” this incident.
After completing a delivery on November 18, a drone clipped a thin, overhead internet cable and then performed a “Safe Contingent Landing,” as designed, an Amazon spokesperson told Reuters, adding that “there were no injuries or widespread internet service outages.”
Video footage reviewed by CNBC, which first reported the incident, showed one of Amazon’s MK30 drones ascending from a customer’s yard when one of its six propellers became entangled in a utility line. The drone’s motors subsequently shut down, resulting in a controlled descent.
The development comes after the NTSB and FAA said in October that they would investigate a separate incident in which two Amazon (AMZN) Prime Air drones collided with a crane boom in Arizona.
