Crashed Swiss Post drone recovered
François Furer 25. January 2019 15:30
Last modified: 28. January 2019 15:18
(28 January)
Today, Monday, in the course of the morning, the Zurich city police recovered the Swiss Post drone which had come down into Lake Zurich. We are relieved that the drone was located in the presumed search area over the lake near Landi-Wiese park and was successfully salvaged by divers from the water police. The drone is now in the safe hands of the forensic institute, where experts from the drone manufacturer, Matternet, will also be called in to help examine it. According to the city police, the parachute attached to the drone was lying next to it. If the drone registers unsolvable problems or deviates from its defined route, the rotors switch off and the parachute is triggered. As it descends towards the ground, it draws attention to itself by hooting and flashing.
Investigations will be carried out to determine why and how the drone was lost on its way from the Hirslanden Klinik im Park to Zurich’s central laboratory. Swiss Post and Matternet are assisting the relevant authorities with their inquiries, and is in contact with the Federal Office of Civil Aviation and the Zurich city police for this purpose. Security is a top priority for Swiss Post and Matternet, which is why its other drones will remain on the ground until the cause of the accident has been established.
Contact: Swiss Post Media Unit, Oliver Flüeler, 058 341 21 95 or
[email protected]
(25 January)
Swiss Post drone lost over Lake Zurich
Today, Friday, 25 January 2019, at 10.10 a.m., Swiss Post lost contact with one of its drones during a flight over Lake Zurich. The drone is of the type Matternet M2 V9, made by the American manufacturer Matternet. The exact cause of the incident and whereabouts of the drone are not yet known. What is known is that the drone was on its way from the Hirslanden Klinik im Park to Zurich’s central laboratory. It was transporting blood samples that had already been analysed. Until the cause of the crash has been made clear, the drones for the Lugano hospital and the University Hospital of Zurich will remain on the ground.
Swiss Post immediately informed the Zurich City Police and the Federal Office of Civil Aviation about the incident. Zurich city police have launched a search for the drone.
Swiss Post’s drones have so far successfully completed over 3,000 flights in Lugano, Berne and Zurich.
Drones
A vision has become reality
Swiss Post is at the forefront of drone development and deployment for logistics. It transports special healthcare consignments in cooperation with a range of partners in various regions of Switzerland.
Together with the drone manufacturer Matternet and partners from the healthcare sector, Swiss Post is using drones to transport laboratory samples. At present, samples are transported by road. But thanks to the use of drones, transporting these samples should become more flexible, more eco-friendly and less dependent on the traffic situation. A car journey lasting 45 minutes becomes a flight of just a few minutes in the uncongested airspace, which means true added value for our customers and by extension their patients. This is because healthcare consignments in particular are often urgent and the speed at which they are delivered can be crucial.
Using new digital solutions, Swiss Post is expanding its core business – transporting goods, information and people – to include new business areas.
Swiss Post is a pioneer in Switzerland for autonomous and commercial drones. Drones can be deployed in many ways in logistics – above all in the last mile to transport high-priority consignments, such as lab samples, or to deliver supplies to places cut off from the outside world after a storm.
However, as 130 million parcels are sent per year, the nationwide use of drones would not be expedient. This means that drones will complement traditional parcel delivery where required in the future, but they will not replace it.
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