A 1-year-old boy's eye was sliced into half by the propeller of a drone in the United Kingdom leaving him blind in one eye.
The incident happened while Simon Evans, a family friend to the 1-year-old boy identified as Oscar Webb was playing with the drone and it crashed. Mr Evans, who was an experienced drone operator, described the moment it flew out of control.
He told Watchdog: 'It was up for about 60 seconds. As I brought it back down to land it just clipped the tree and span round.
'The next thing I know I've just heard my friend shriek and say "Oh God no" and I turned around and just saw blood and his baby on the floor crying.'
According to police report, the drone flew 60 feet in the air when it crashed into a tree. It then spun out of control and the propeller hit the right eye of Webb. The tragedy has put the little boy's family into mourning.
Oscar's mother, Amy Roberts, said she was in the ambulance taking Oscar to hospital in Birmingham when he opened his eye, revealing the horrific damage.
'What I saw, I can still see it now...it was the bottom half of his eye and it's the worst thing I've ever seen,' she said.
'I just hoped and prayed all the way there that what I saw wasn't true and wasn't real.
'I can't really even remember what I was thinking at the time. I just remember waiting for someone to come and say it was OK.
'They (the doctors) did say that it was one of the worst eye incidents they'd seen.
'It was hard, I cried that much that even the consultant, it brought tears to her face.'
Surgeons performed several emergency operations to try and save Oscar's eye but the damage was too catastrophic. The youngster, from Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, now needs a series of operations before he can have a prosthetic eye fitted.
No charges were filed against Evans as the Webb family has forgiven him. However, Evans vowed that he will never touch a drone again.
The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) warned people not to fly drones near people, buildings or airports as it could become a dangerous weapon if not well handled.