Quebec's Super Scooper planes, along with Canada's efforts to help its neighbour, have caught the world's attention. (Credit: AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times) ...

A Super Scooper aircraft drops water over the Martindale fire on September 28, 2020. Super Scoopers are proving vital to fighting the fires in Los Angeles. A Super Scooper aircraft drops water ...

Drone pilot faces criminal and financial repercussions for grounding a Canadian aircraft sent to help fight wildfires in ...

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

Prosecutors filed a plea agreement in which they said Akemann admitted he crashed the drone into the Super Scooper aircraft on Jan. 9, causing it to be taken out of commission temporarily.

Quebec's CL-415 aircrafts, which are known as "Super Scoopers,", are specially designed firefighting planes that can skim the surface of the ocean and scoop up more than 5,600 litres of water to drop ...