My Mavic 3 Pro Is Destroyed... Be Careful With Your Drone!

Hi, Billy. Thanks for sharing your experience with our service. As always, should you need to contact us for any reason, please know that we're always here to help.

Good to see that DJI took care of you Billy. Gotta give DJI's marketing department credit here. They are on their game. One question. Do you have hawks or any other large predatory birds in your airspace? Did the flight logs detail why the esc failed or registered an error in the app? (woops that's two questions). If the motors were stopped abruptly, by a bird that grabbed them, that could explain the esc error and the drone coming down. After repairing their products for almost 6 years now, I cannot believe that the gimbal itself did not incur any damage. Usually you will see "Gimbal Motor Overload" or "Gimbal Stuck", due to the Pitch, Roll or Yaw motor, burning itself up, trying to stay level with the horizon during a crash. Gotta give DJI's marketing department credit on this one. Lowest repair bill ever! Good marketing DJI!

Sorry to hear about your crash, especially your Mavic 3 Pro I'm glad no one was hurt and no property was damaged. And that it only costs you $68 for the repair. And I guess an ESC can go bad at any time, so thanks for reminding us to be careful at all times with the drone in the air. Great video, thanks for sharing.

Great information... thanks! Did you ever find out more as to why the 'ESC' error?

That’s been my experience getting drones repaired by DJI. every time has been really fast with great communication and really well priced repairs. Care refresh is great as well. I usually have the replacement drone within 5-7 days from the time I ship mine out.

Why do I pay for DJI Care Refresh every purchase when I see these videos of guys getting them replaced for $68? 😂

So it's not completely destroyed. I like the fact that they sent out a basically new unit. Thank you for sharing this.

Well now... that stinks. Seems uncommon to lose an ESC but to your point, anytime your drone is airborne, things can fail and result in a crash. Thanks for sharing this Billy! It's a good reminder to all of us to fly with care and be mindful that things can and do go wrong. Sorry for your loss.

Billy, do you know the MTBF for the mavic 3 series. I've been flying mine constantly for about 18 months and I am constantly thinking about it falling out of the sky. Thx...

Gosh, where do I start? I mean, drone drooping down like a dead bird from the sky is my worst nightmare! How common is this issue? The closest experience to this I had, the drone landing by itself at the alps due to a faulty battery that drooped from 100% fully charged to 0% in less than 60 seconds. But I manage to catch it undamaged, it did not fall. Both you and DJI are also lucky it didn't drop into somebody's property or even worse, on somebody's head. But that seem to be pure luck. When you say be careful when you fly, how would exactly do that, if this is a system error? Fly on the deserts, away from civilizations? And what happened to dual IMU redundancy which is meant to prevent this kind of thing? I am glad you were able to get a replacement that cheap but we should not fool ourselves into thinking DJI would do the same for every random YouTube'r (our fault or not) They look at the level of influence and make decision. Anyway, good video as usual, even though not my favorite topic.

Good video Billy. A bit of bad luck with the crash and well done DJI on the repair.

Nice video again Billy! Thanks for sharing. Kudos to you & DJI!

How does one record the flight pattern, so that if something goes wrong like the ESC error that BK got, you can send it to DJI for repair? Thanks in advance.

nice video billy like always.i have a mavic 3 pro,and i was wondering how can you do stockpile measurements with the m3pro?...can you please share the steps thank you!

Sorry for the lost. May I know which Mavic 3 firmware/ DJI Fly app you updated before getting ESC error and crashing your Mavic 3 Pro? Firmware/app bug?

Hey Billy... Now my very question is, how were you able to take accurately the pictures at the construction site for stockpiles measurements. Having in mind that the Mavic 3 Pro is not a drone supported by Drone deploy, What method do you use to make sure you won't have huge gaps between your photos during post-processing ?

Thanks for the video! Did they change out the serial numbers as well, or did you have to re-register on Drone Zone? It's inexpensive enough, just curious.

I have the regular mavic 3 and it's in new condition, but it's out of warranty. Do you think I can still put care refresh on this drone? It's been discontinued I think, but I constantly fly my mini 4 pro because I'm always scared to fly this expensive drone without care refresh.

Cool video, thanks for sharing Billy!

I always liked your timelapses. I want to see more! , and btw. thanks for sharing valuable lesson!