A drone that went missing over Adams Morgan two weeks ago was found and returned to its owner this afternoon, landing a Maryland-based contractor a $250 reward and a good story to tell his friends.

Michael Crosby, an HVAC specialist, found the drone—a remote-controlled quadcopter—last Wednesday on the roof of the Camden Roosevelt, a building located on 16th Street between Florida Avenue and V Street, just south of Meridian Hill Park. The drone had been there for over a week, having fallen out of the sky on September 9 after a gust of wind caught it as owner Adam Eidinger flew it over Adams Morgan Day.

Crosby said he first assumed it was a hanging planter, but upon closer inspection noticed its four rotors and a camera that had been mounted on the quadcopter sitting nearby. After checking the video footage of the quadcopter’s takeoff and checking it against satellite images on Google, he was able to narrow down the location of its takeoff on that ill-fated flight. Last Friday, he knocked on the door of Eidinger’s office in Adams Morgan to tell him that he had found the quadcopter. (Crosby said he didn’t read any of the media coverage of the quadcopter’s loss, and it was only coincidence that he stopped by Eidinger office the same day that Eidinger was talking about the incident on The Kojo Nnamdi Show.)

Crosby handed off the quadcopter to Eidinger today, who surveyed the damage to his Chinese-made hobbyist drone, which cost $700 to build. Half of the landing gear had broken, and all four rotors had lost multiple blades. The camera survived intact, and the video it shot of the flight provided clues as to what happened.

On the video, the quadcopter is seen taking off over Adams Morgan. But within a few second it is blown south by a powerful gust of wind, which left Eidinger scrambling to fight Mother Nature with his two-pound quadcopter. It eventually went out of remote control range, and a short-circuit led one rotor to turn off completely. At that point the quadcopter turned upside down, righted itself and began a quick and violent descent onto the Roosevelt’s roof.

While Eidinger said he’s happy to have his quadcopter back, he won’t be flying it anytime soon: after word of the flight leaked out, the Federal Aviation Administration told him that flying anything more complicated than a kite over D.C. airspace is a big no-no.