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A 63-year-old man who recently took a washed-up unmanned aerial vehicle home after checking it with an artificial intelligence app found a second UAV along the same coastline in Türkiye’s Karasu district, Ihlas News Agency (IHA) reported.
Ali Cabuk discovered the second aircraft while traveling along the beach in Camitepe with his cousin in an off-road vehicle.
Unlike the first incident, Cabuk did not touch or load the UAV into his vehicle. He immediately notified authorities, who examined and removed it.
“This time, we did not touch it. We informed the teams that we had found the drone,” Cabuk said.
Cabuk said he had jokingly told his cousin before their trip that they would find a drone.
“We left the house with my cousin. I even joked with him, saying, ‘Come on, let’s find you a drone.’ We found one, and he saw it too,” Cabuk said.
Cabuk said he regularly searches the shoreline for timber and pieces of wood washed up by the sea.
During the first incident, Cabuk was traveling along the Camitepe shoreline with his wife and grandson when he found a UAV weighing about 15 to 20 kilograms that had washed ashore.
He photographed the aircraft and asked an AI application on his smartphone whether it contained explosives.
“I asked artificial intelligence. It told me it came from Russia and that there was no bomb inside. So we loaded it into the car,” Cabuk told IHA.
Cabuk, his wife and grandson lifted the UAV by its wings, placed it in the trunk of their off-road vehicle and drove it to an area near his home before notifying authorities.
Gendarmerie teams examined the first UAV and determined that it was not carrying explosives.
Because the aircraft did not fit inside the gendarmerie vehicle, Cabuk again used his own vehicle to transport it to the police station.
After finding the second UAV, Cabuk contacted authorities before touching it or asking the AI application whether it contained a bomb.
Teams conducted the required examination and removed the aircraft from the beach.
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