The low battery warning popped up on my screen and I tried to bring the drone home. Sorry, I'm still new at this and apparently didn't keep a close enough eye on the battery icon, but last time I had looked it read 14.8. Anyway, the drone started dodging and dropping independently of my input, and very shortly the critical battery warning came up. After that things went haywire, messages popping up on the screen faster than I could read them while also trying to keep an eye on the drone so it didn't drop out of the sky. Which it finally did about 1/8 of a mile out as I was still trying to bring it in safely. It shot straight up to about the level of the electric poles and then stone dropped while I was lowering the landing legs, straight on the camera housing. Then it shot back up, flipped and crashed rotors down in a grassy ditch. The camera survived, I had a screen view of the crash site, and when I hiked over to retrieve the Typhoon it was still upside down, griping at me in beep code, its lights all flashing madly
I don't know how much can be attributed to this low battery/erratic maneuvering issue and how much to chalk up to pilot inexperience. This was about my 7th or 8th flight, with no trouble til now. I was enjoying the flying and the camera view so much that I probably let it get too far away for the battery time I had left, but it sure didn't seem like I'd been aloft very long at all, and there was absolutely not much time left to get the drone back home once the battery warning appeared.
Lucky for me, damage seems to be limited to one broken blade, and the camera mounting coming apart. A bundle of wires in the camera swivel was displaced but not broken, and I was able to tease them back into a protected location inside the swivel once I got the camera itself skewed back to its original position. But I'm missing one of the little plastic washers that secure the mounting pins through the bubble dampeners. I fashioned a usable substitute from the broken rotor blade. My dumb question is this: exactly how does the camera mount disconnect from the drone? I think I'd have more luck getting the washer over the pin if the mount was off the drone, better access to both top and bottom openings. There is a tab that looks like it can be depressed to unlock the gimbal to slide off the whole camera assembly. None of the videos I've seen show the camera being removed from the drone, they all start with repairing the broken rail/gimble/wiring etc. I would feel better about trying it - depressing the tab and pulling off the gimble and camera - if I knew there was no wiring or connectors or gotchas to screw up in the process. It's a tough push to even move the tab at all.
Like I said, dumb question, so basic all the videos take for granted the viewer knows how to get the camera off the drone. But I've never done it, so I'm not sure.