Drone crashes into Seattle ferris wheel

“No one came forward while we were investigating”.

The Seattle Times reports that Seattle Great Wheel security workers reported the drone to police Wednesday.

No injuries were reported, according to the newspaper. Authorities confiscated the aircraft, and they’re looking for the owner. “I don’t get it. I just don’t understand it”.

Great Wheel security manager Wayman Earls III said he saw the whole incident unfold.

Great Wheel operators inspected the ride and did not find any damage.

The deck where the drone landed was unoccupied at the time and no one was hurt.

In 2013, Seattle police grounded a program to send aloft miniature robot drones equipped with stealth spy cameras following criticism of the project by residents concerned about privacy rights. Police have also had issues with drones flying too closely to their helicopters, and prisons have seen outsiders use drones to fly contraband over the walls to inmates.

While none of the bystanders near the Ferris wheel caught the actual impact on video, a few of the onlookers recorded shorts and shots of the damage the drone crash caused – notably to a plastic table, into which the drone crashed after presumably ricocheting off of one of the wheel’s structural beams.