Date:	Monday 3 January 2011
Time:
Type:	General Atomics MQ-1B Predator
Owner/operator:	432nd WGp /15th RSqn USAF
Registration:	99-3061
MSN:	P061
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	approx 115miles west of Kandahar -   Afghanistan
Phase:	Unknown
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:
Investigating agency:	USAF AIB

Narrative:
ELEC POWER LOSS; LOST LINK; IMPACTED TERRAIN. The Accident Investigation report was released on April 8, 2011. After suffering dual alternator failure 17+ hours into it's mission the 15th RS crew realised the on-board back-up battery had insufficient voltage to allow either a return to Kandahar or divert field so the crew directed the aircraft into an unpopulated region until the battery was depleted and the $4.4million was destroyed in the resulting crash.

1.https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/04/06/military-times-aviation-database/
2.https://www.airforcemag.com/PDF/AircraftAccidentReports/Documents/2011/010311_MQ-1B_Kandahar.pdf

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
13-May-2018 21:10	ASN archive
03-Mar-2020 17:39	StokieSteve	Updated [Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Country, Source, Damage, Narrative, ]
03-Mar-2020 17:40	harro	Updated [Source, Accident report, ]
11-Mar-2020 16:17	DG333	Updated [Operator, Source, Operator, ]
20-Apr-2020 20:55	Reno Raines	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator, ]