Reduced visibility from thick smoke, coupled with turbulence created by the fire's heat, can create perilous flying conditions.

The defendant has agreed to pay more than $65,000 in restitution and faces up to a year in federal prison, prosecutors said.

A Canadian “Super Scooper” aircraft fighting the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles had to be grounded after it hit a drone flying ...

A drone hit the wing of a Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper plane fighting the LA fires. Cal Fire only has one other Quebec 1 aircraft in its arsenal.

Federal charges were announced Friday in connection to a civilian drone that hit and damaged a water-dropping super scooper ...

Peter Tripp Akemann, 56, agreed to plead guilty to one count of unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft, federal prosecutors ...

A 56-year-old Culver City man has agreed to plead guilty to “recklessly operating a drone” that ended up crashing into and damaging a Super Scooper as it was ...

A Culver City man has agreed to plead guilty to flying a drone that crashed into a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft, ...

A Culver City man was arrested in a drone collision with a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft over the Palisades Fire in Los ...

Peter Akemann agreed to plead guilty to recklessly operating a drone that crashed into and damaged a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft fighting the Palisades Fire earlier this month, officials said.

It happened as the plane, the Quebec 1 Super Scooper that flew down from Canada to help, was working to contain the Palisades Fire, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson told Fox News ...