Date:	Tuesday 7 January 2020
Time:	day
Type:	DJI Matrice 30 Enterprise
Owner/operator:	Private
Registration:	unregistered
MSN:	N/K
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Location:	Training Ground (CFA) at Manchester City, Manchester -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Training Ground at Manchester City, Manchester
Destination airport:
Investigating agency:	AAIB
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
DJI Matrice UAV: Crashed at Manchester City's Training Ground (City Football Academy) Sportcity, 4 West Gate, Alan Turing Way, Manchester, M11 4TQ. The incident was the subject of an AAIB Record-only Investigation, published on 11 June 2020, and the following is the summary from the AAIB Report

"A parachute pin tag caught a blade during take off. The UAS reached 10 metres altitude then descended, colliding with terrain and sustained substantial damage."

Damage Sustained to UAV
Per the AAIB Report "substantial"

The Academy Stadium is a football stadium in Manchester, England, forming part of the Etihad Campus. In September 2023, the ground was renamed Joie Stadium for sponsorship reasons. Announced on 19 September 2011 as part of an 80-acre training facility to cater for around 400 youth players at a time, the campus was opened on 8 December 2014. The stadium, known simply as Academy Stadium, was inaugurated by students of the Manchester Metropolitan University, who played the first official games on the pitch on 14 December 2014.

1. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/aaib-record-only-investigations-march-april-2020/aaib-record-only-investigations-reviewed-march-april-2020
2. AAIB Bulletin March 2020: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5f69d7898fa8f50769c06080/AAIB_Bulletin_3-2020_Hi_res.pdf
3. https://enterprise.dji.com/matrice-30
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etihad_Campus
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Stadium

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26 September 2019	unregistered	Private	0	Hillsborough Football Ground, Owlerton, Sheffield, South Yorkshire		mis
1 October 2019	unregistered	Private	0	Shearwater C PUQ Platform, North Sea, 200 km East of Aberdeen		mis
2 December 2019	unregistered	Private	0	Brittany Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, East Sussex		w/o
28 May 2020	Unregistered	Dŵr Cymru/Welsh Water	0	Water pumping station, Prioress Mill Lane, Rhadyr, Usk, Gwent NP15 1QE		sub
7 August 2020	Unregistered	Hess Corporation	0	South Arne Wellhead Platforms East, Danish sector, North Sea		sub
10 August 2020	Unregistered	Shell UK Ltd	0	Gannet 'A' Oil & Gas Platform, North Sea, 110 miles East of Aberdeen		sub
27 August 2020	Unregistered	Private	0	Broxbourne, Hertfordshire		sub
31 August 2020	Unregistered	Private	0	Bath, Somerset BA1		sub
11 September 2020	Unregistered	Private	0	Ipswich, Suffolk		w/o
13 September 2020	Unregistered	Arena Racing Company	0	Bath Racecourse, Lansdown Hill, Bath, Somerset BA1 9BU		sub
23 September 2020	Unregistered	Private	0	Perth, Perthshire, Tayside, Scotland		w/o
13 December 2020	Unregistered	Nottinghamshire Police	0	Mansfield, Nottinghamshire		sub
26 January 2021	Unregistered	Private	0	Carrington, Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester		sub
17 March 2021	Unregistered	Transport for London (TfL)	0	Silvertown Tunnel, North Greenwich, London SE10		sub
1 April 2021	Unregistered	Private	0	West End, Surrey Heath, Surrey		sub
Bird strike
14 April 2021	Unregistered	Private	0	Guildford, Surrey		sub
2 May 2021	Unregistered	Private	0	Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk		sub
6 May 2021	Unregistered	Metropolitan Police	0	New Malden, Surrey		sub
Collision with pole or wires
10 September 2021	Unregistered	Private	0	Ilminster, Somerset		sub
16 September 2021	Unregistered	Surrey Police	0	Oxshott Railway Station, Warren Lane, Oxshott, Surrey KT22 0TA		sub
29 September 2021	Unregistered	Private	0	Hillingdon, near Uxbridge, Greater London		w/o
18 October 2021	Unregistered	Private	0	Crawley, West Sussex		sub
8 November 2021	Unregistered	Private	0	Rhes-Y-Cae, Flintshire		sub
22 November 2021	Unregistered	Private	0	Keyworth, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire		sub
23 October 2023	unregistered	Private	0	Colwyn Bay, Conway, Clywd, Wales		sub
17 November 2023	unregistered	Private	0	Carlisle, Cumbria		sub
27 November 2023	unregistered	Private	0	near Ripon, North Yorkshire		sub
9 August 2024	Unregistered	Wynyard Estates	0	Wynyard, near Hartlepool, County Durham		sub
4 September 2024	Unregistered	SSE PLC	0	near Rannoch Power Station, Loch Rannoch, Perth and Kinross		sub
11 October 2024	Unregistered	Private	0	Dunscroft, Hatfield, 6 miles South of Doncaster, South Yorkshire		w/o
17 October 2024	Unregistered	Private	0	River Thames, off Rotherhithe Pier, London SE16		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
26-Sep-2024 14:21	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative, Category, ]