The defendant has agreed to pay more than $65,000 in restitution and faces up to a year in federal prison, prosecutors said.
Peter Akemann, the man accused of damaging a super scooper plane with a drone while flying it over the Palisades Fire, has pleaded guilty.
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Los Angeles authorities have vowed to prosecute illegal drone flights after a civilian drone collided with a Canadian “Super Scooper” aircraft fighting the Palisades Fire Thursday, forcing it to be ...
So losing just one Super Scooper even temporarily can hamper firefighting operations when every hour is critical. Thursday’s drone crash, which punched a hole in the plane’s left wing ...