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

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

A water-dropping Super Scooper aircraft sent from Canada to battle fires ravaging the L.A. area has been grounded after colliding with a civilian drone on Thursday, officials said. The collision ...

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

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.

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

Prosecutors said a Culver City man agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge stemming from the incident that briefly ...

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

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

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

Peter Tripp Akemann, a co-founder of Call of Duty studio Treyarch, has pleaded guilty to crashing a drone into a firefighting ...