Starting on Friday, Amazon will resume its drone delivery service in Arizona as two federal agencies are under investigation earlier this week.
The Amazon operation has been suspended in the western valley of the Phoenix Metro – it is currently the only commercial market – after crush on Wednesday. Two of the company’s Prime Air Delivery Drons clashed with a crane boom near its same day site in Arizona’s Tolson, which was devastated to them.
Amazon has been providing a five -pound weight package to customers through its Prime Air Drone Service in the western valley of Phoenix since November 2024.
Amazon spokesman Terns Clark said the company would continue to support “the ongoing review by the relevant agencies.” The National Transport Protection Board and the Federal Aviation Administration announced Thursday that the accident was under investigation.
“Protection is our highest priority, and we have completed the internal review of this event and confident that there is no problem with their supporting technology,” Clark said in an emailed statement. “Nevertheless, we launched additional processes such as extended visual landscape inspections for better monitors for running obstacles like cranes.”
The program has been facing several pushing for years, including Departure Among the main executives, since the agency moves aimed at using drones to provide 500 million packages every year at the end of the decade.
In December 2021, Amazon stopped his drones after the two models in Oregon clashed. At the time, Amazon said that it would suspend the drone supply in college stations, Texas and Arizona for a software update in its drone fleet. There is no operation at Amazon and College Station.
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Amazon also won one or two wins, including approved from the US Federal Aviation Administration to fly its delivery drones for a long distance. In May 2024, this approval removed a regulatory barrier, allowing Amazon to expand its Prime Air Service. Amazon has earlier said that they plan to extend Prime Air Delivery services in Richardson, San Antonio and Walko in Texas, including sites planned for Detroit and Kansas City across the country.