Border Patrol Predator Drone Crashes in Arizona

Posted on: Apr. 26th, 2006 || Source: azstarnet.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

Border Patrol officials are investigating the Tuesday morning crash of a Predator-B spy drone, according to the Department of Homeland Security's office of Customs and Border Protection in Washington, D.C.

Spokesman Michael Friel said operators lost contact with the $14 million unmanned plane about 2:50 a.m. as it patrolled the border at 12,000 to 15,000 feet. Efforts to re-establish contact were not successful.

A search team aboard one of the agency's Black Hawk helicopters located the crash site about 10 miles north of Nogales at about 6:20 a.m., Friel said. No one was injured and no property was damaged, he added

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