Drone with video camera crashes through Seattle couple's window

Seattle police are trying to track down the owner of the drone that crashed into a home in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.

It happened around 7 a.m. Thursday as Wen Jun Chen was cooking breakfast for her family.

“I heard a boom! Like glass,” says Chen.

Chen says she initially thought a lamp fell and broke.  Her husband Charles Ragen thought it was something else.

“I immediately thought a rock, a BB gun, or a bird,” says Ragen.

When Ragen walked outside, he discovered what he describes as a “DJI Phantom Quadcopter,” a popular type of drone available on the market.

He was surprised by the impact of the crash that sent glass flying through his dining room.

“My feeling is that it would have been moving at a high rate of speed then falling in some parabola,” says Ragen. “And it was just a coincidence to hit our window.”

This is the latest in a string of drone-related incidents in Seattle.

In 2014, a video came out showing a drone hovering over the Space Needle.  And last year, an unmanned aircraft hit the Great Wheel and fell to the ground. Seattle Police investigators were able to track down the owner and they hope to do the same in the case.

Charles Ragen is considering suing the drone company hoping something like this won’t happen again.

“They shouldn’t be putting out these machines without having a way to land it safely if the owners lose control.”

Last summer, the city's attorney office charged a 37-year-old man for reckless endangerment after his drone crashed into a woman attending the Seattle Pride Parade.

The drone in Thursday’s incident is now in police custody. Detectives are looking for the owner, who could face charges.

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