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Exotic woods, Phuket

It was a windy evening in Phuket, Thailand.  Biking alongside 2 friends, we went to the Big Buddha Statue for sightseeing. I took out my Mavic Drone to film the magnificently enormous sculpture.  15 minutes into the flight, multiple gusts of wind heading north took over the atmosphere. It then occurred to me, that forces of the wind is stronger than the forward thrusting power of the drone - the drone was being dragged into the opposite direction I was controlling, drifting another 400m up North.  The battery of the drone has drained down to 40%. In a desperate attempt to rescue the drone, I turned on "SPORTS" mode function and managed to overpower the the wind and head down south.  "Ahh, I saved my drone with quick thinking" or so I thought, never did I knew it was unfortunately it's final flight. The battery drained to 20% really fast and forced itself out of "SPORTS" mode to intelligently(also foolishly) save it's battery.  Within minutes, the d...