8
drone flights over Detroit that day.
1:41 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 3:56 pm.
14 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Detroit police drones flew 8 times on Thursday 24 October 2024, the first at 1:41 pm and the last at 3:56 pm EDT, by Detroit Fire Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, EDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.
| Takeoff (EDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:41 pm | Patrol support | 7 min | 62df8ad1 |
| 1:52 pm | Patrol support | 1 min 09 s | 3c818529 |
| 2:16 pm | Patrol support | 14 min | cdefe8b9 |
| 2:34 pm | Patrol support | 13 min | a92f8574 |
| 2:51 pm | Patrol support | 5 min | eeda71d5 |
| 2:57 pm | Patrol support | 25 min | 74847648 |
| 3:25 pm | Patrol support | 29 min | 589b30eb |
| 3:56 pm | Patrol support | 26 min | 093f69bd |
How this page is made
- Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
- The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
- Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
- Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
- Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
- A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.
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