Drone manufacturer disables flights over Washington after White House incident
Drone manufacturer DJI is disabling all of its devices within a 15.5-mile radius of Washington, D.C.'s downtown area after a government employee crashed a DJI on the White House lawn on Monday.
DJI also announced that it will issue a "mandatory update" for its drone operating system, Time reports. The update will disable the flights over D.C. and will keep drones from flying in restricted areas around 10,000 U.S. airports.
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GPS can be disabled on DJI drones, but a spokesman told Gizmodo that even with the GPS disabled, the drone flight restrictions will still be in place.
