Amazon Prime Air loses two key operations leaders, as drone delivery struggles continue
of division head David Carbon's target of 10,000 this year. Amazon says it has completed hundreds of deliveries at those locations.between 2020 and 2021. More recently, on June 21 of this year, during tests at the Pendleton site, a drone made an emergency landing in a field and was destroyed, according to a federal crash report viewed by CNBC. Nobody was injured, the report says.
Amazon spokesperson Simone Griffin told CNBC in a statement:"We test our drone systems up to their limits and beyond. In this case, there was no damage to people or structures, we reported this incident to the regulatory authorities as required, the flight test was done in compliance with all applicable regulations, and we'll use the learnings to keep improving."Amazon could now be at risk of not completing a key regulatory requirement of the Federal Aviation Administration.
The company is in the process of completing D&R testing for its current drone model, the MK27-2. It will have to undergo the same regulatory process for its next-generation version, the MK30, which Amazon expects to launch next year.
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