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 grounded the plane.
Peter Akemann, a former UC Berkeley Ph.D. student and once-prominent video games executive, flew a drone that hit a Super Scooper plane by the Palisades Fire.
A drone that authorities say was flying in restricted airspace on Jan. 9 put a fist-sized hole in the wing of a Super Scooper ...
A Culver City man accused of flying a drone and crashing it into a water-dropping aircraft during the Palisades Fire has agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, federal prosecutors announced Friday.
The drone industry – both consumer and industrial – has made incredible strides over the past decade, but in my humble ...
A 56-year-old Californian man has pleaded guilty to operating the drone that crashed into a Quebec water bomber plane ...
The Diodon drone can be thrown into the water and launched from there. Even if it lands upside down on the surface, it can ...
Named Feiyi by researchers in China, the drone is claimed to have great application potential in various military fields.
The White House said the mystery drones flown across New Jersey were "authorized to be flown by the FAA" in the first press ...
Amid reports of a new US military plan for an underwater drone release, scientists say China has already done it better.