# Incident 20191218024349I: Latitude Engineering LLC HQ-90B, Iowa City, IA, December 18, 2019

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: December 18, 2019, 19:00 local time
- Place: Iowa City, IA
- Damage: Destroyed
- Phase of flight: Hover/Holding
- Location: 41.6557° N, 91.5309° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Iowa City, IA, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.6557&lon=-91.5309&mi=10
- Aircraft: N450PL, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N450PL-2022-04-16) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Latitude Engineering HQ-90B (registry code 061011R, https://openairdocs.org/model/latitude-engineering-hq-90b) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: LATITUDE ENGINEERING LLC HQ-90B
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot, flight instructor
- Pilot flight hours: 6,400 total, 18 in this make and model, 50 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20191218024349I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

ON DECEMBER 18, 2020, A  AT APPROXIMATELY 1900Z A  DRONE CRASHED IN A TRAILER PARK 1 MILE SOUTH OF IOW AIRPORT. DRONE STRUCK AN EMPTY DRIVEWAY, SLID INTO INFLATABLE YARD ORNAMANTS.  NO INJURIES, AIRCRAFT WAS DESTROYED.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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