Nov 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation

Administration (FAA) said on Tuesday it is probing Amazon ( AMZN )

after one of its delivery drones downed an internet

cable in central Texas last week.

"A MK30 drone struck a wire line in Waco, Texas, around

12:45 p.m. local time on Tuesday, November 18," the regulator

said in a statement to Reuters, adding that it "is

investigating" this incident.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said the

agency is not investigating the incident.

On November 18, after completing a delivery, a drone clipped

a thin, overhead internet cable then performed a "Safe

Contingent Landing," as designed, an Amazon ( AMZN ) spokesperson told

Reuters in an emailed response, adding that "there were no

injuries or widespread internet service outages."

Video footage reviewed by CNBC, which first reported the

incident, showed one of Amazon's ( AMZN ) MK30 drones ascending from a

customer's yard when one of its six propellers became entangled

in a utility line. The drone's motors subsequently shut down,

resulting in a controlled descent.

This comes after the NTSB and FAA said in October that they

would investigate a separate incident in which two Amazon Prime

Air drones collided with a crane boom in Arizona.

Amazon ( AMZN ) began delivering prescription medications by drones

in partnership with Amazon Pharmacy to customers in College

Station, Texas in 2023.

The e-commerce firm aims to deliver 500 million packages

annually by drone by the end of 2030.