Mandatory Cessation of Operations and Analysis Following Incidents or Accidents

In plain language

If you experience an incident like injuring someone, hitting someone, damaging the drone so it flies differently, flying outside your planned boundaries, almost colliding with another aircraft, losing control (fly-away), or any incident resulting in a police report or CADORS, you must stop flying immediately. You cannot fly again until you figure out why it happened and take steps to prevent it from happening again.

Requirement as structured

A pilot operating a remotely piloted aircraft system must immediately cease operations if a specified incident or accident occurs, and must not resume until an analysis of the cause is conducted and corrective actions are taken.

Original regulatory text

A pilot that operates a remotely piloted aircraft system shall immediately cease operations if any of the following incidents or accidents occurs until such time as an analysis is undertaken as to the cause of the occurrence and corrective actions have been taken to mitigate the risk of recurrence...

Applies when

country

Canada

regulatory category

General