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Drone Crashes

Filed under: Al-Qaeda, Counter-terror, USA, Yemen — by Jane Novak at 8:56 am on Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Second drone to crash in Yemen, (The first UAV was May 2007.) al Sahwa

Sahwa Net – Yemeni security services have affirmed what was reported on news websites that an unmanned aircraft crashed on Thursday in Lahj province.

The aircraft which is thought American-made was taken in an air base in Anad area in order to check it and know its tasks exactly.

From what I can tell from the Arabic articles, it was very small and had a camera type thingy. Yup, a little one: In this context, the security services found in the past week on an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft in the area of the Cape Province Arp Hajj, the length of one and a half meters, and long with a wingspan of about two meters, and within broadcast pictures of a camera attached at the top of a remote-controlled, likely to be American industry.

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2/18/2009 @ 3:58 pm

[...] US could be running the drones with Yemen gov’t permission, or not. First was in Lahj and about a meter wide. This one was on Socotra. Maybe turbulence from the sandstorms blew it down. [...]

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