Amazon will resume its drone delivery service in Erizona starting on Friday as two federal agencies continue to investigate an accident earlier this week.
Amazon suspended operations in West Valley of Phoenix Metro sector – currently its only commercial market – after an accident on Wednesday. Two of the company’s prime air delivery drones collided with the jump of a crane near their same day’s site in Arizona, which crashed him in the field.
Amazon is distributing package, weighing up to five pounds, customers via its prime air drone service West Valley of Phoenix From November 2024.
Amazon spokesman Terence Clarke said the company would continue to support “reviews run by relevant agencies”. The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration announced on Thursday that an investigation was going on in the accident.
Clarke said in an email statement, “Security is our top priority, and we have completed our internal reviews of the event and are convinced that there was no problem with drone or technology.” “Nevertheless, we have introduced additional procedures such as increased visual landscape inspection for better monitors to pursue interruptions like cranes.”
The program has faced many failures over the years, including Departure Among the major officials, because by the end of the company, by the end of the decade, it pushes its target to use a drone to give 500 million packages per year.
Amazon stopped testing his drone Mid-air collision In December 2024, the two models in Oregon include. At that time, Amazon said that the college would suspend drone delivery at stations, Texas and Arizona, which is pending a software update in its drone fleet. Amazon is no longer operating in the college station.
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Amazon has also scored a win or two, including receiving approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration Its delivery drones fly long distancesIn May 2024 that approval removed a regulatory barrier, with Amazon expanding its major air service. Amazon has earlier stated that it plans to expand the prime air delivery services in Richardson, San Antonio and Wako in Texas, and Detroit and Planned for Cances City with sites across the country.
