Done drones are disrupted by Amazon, a crane in Arizona.

Amazon drone delivery program is undergoing again after two drones were crashed earlier this week in Arizona.

On Wednesday morning, MK30 unmanned aircraft landed on the ground in Tolison, Arizona, the city of West Phoenix, after colliding with a building crane boom.

According to what was reported, the drones were on the way to return to the Amazon warehouse when they hit the crane. The drones were fire after the accident and damaged “large”, according to Primary report From the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

No one was seriously injured, although one person examined the inhalation of smoke, CNBC mentioned. The Board of Directors of the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Safety Board of Directors are now said to investigate the accident. Ntsb The investigation of a publication on X confirmed.

The agencies did not immediately respond to Gizmodo requests for comment.

The Amazon temporarily suspended the delivery of drones in Tolison after the accident, but she said she had been resumed since then and supports “continuous reviews by relevant agencies.”

“Safety is our top priority, and we have completed our internal review of this incident and we are confident that there was no problem with drones or technology that supports them,” Terns Clark, Amazon spokesman, told Gizmodo in an e -mail statement. “However, we have provided additional operations such as visual inspections reinforcing landscapes for better monitoring of obstacles such as cranes.”

This is not the first time that Amazon had to turn off to delivery of drones. In January, the company temporarily suspended operations in the state of Arizona and Texas, following two incidents at the Oregon test site. These incidents also led to FAA and NTSB investigations. Amazon The resumption of delivery operations in MarchHe said that she had solved software problems with drones.

Jeff Bezos was paying the idea of ​​delivering drones for more than a decade. Once again in 2013The first time revealed that Amazon was developing a program with the aim of obtaining packages for customer doors in 30 minutes or less. At that time, Bezos said he expected to be within four to five years.

It took longer, but Amazon eventually launched Prime Air in College Station, Texas, before expanding to the Phoenix metro area in late 2024.

Today, you can hand the service 60,000 are different elements (All less than five pounds) in less than an hour. Customers in qualified cities only need to choose the delivery of drones when going out and choose a drop -down spot such as the corridor or backyard. Once the drone arrives, it descends to about 13 feet above the ground – enough to launch a package safely, but it is high enough to avoid people, cars or pets.

The Amazon said it plans to expand the Air Prime range to more American cities as well as to Italy and the United Kingdom