The twin crashes of Amazon’s MK30 drones in Oregon occurred on Dec. 16, when both aircraft abruptly shut off mid-air and slammed into the ground.

The twin crashes of Amazon’s MK30 drones in Oregon occurred just minutes apart on Dec. 16, when both aircraft abruptly shut off mid-air at an altitude of more than 200 feet and slammed into the ...

MK30 is the company's next-gen drone model, which is lighter and has a longer range than its predecessor, the MK27. The incidents took place in December, with one of the drones even catching fire ...

Amazon’s MK30 drones had been delivering packages in College Station, Texas, and Tolleson, Ariz. after the company won FAA approval in October.

Amazon’s latest delivery drone, the MK30, can deliver packages weighing up to five pounds to customers through light rain in under an hour, the company announced. Fox Business.

In a January 2025 email to Chain Store Age, Amazon denied previous media reports which initiated in Bloomberg saying that it decided to pause delivery at those two sites because two MK30 drones ...

The Amazon MK30 drone – a primer. Engineers and aerospace experts on Amazon’s Prime Air team spent nearly two years building the MK30 from a blank slate.

The MK30 drone is capable of traveling twice as far as Amazon's previous drones and is significantly quieter. From inception, safety and reliability were top priorities. Engineers tested the drone ...

Amazon said the Federal Aviation Administration’s approval includes permission to fly the MK30 over longer distances and beyond the visual line of sight of pilots. IE 11 is not supported.

Most recently Amazon got permission from the FAA to not only start flying from its new Arizona-based location, but also to fly beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) missions with the new MK30 drone.

The MK30 flies twice as far as its previous drones, is about 50% quieter to the human ear, and is built to fly in rainy weather. "This kind of delivery is the future, ...