According to his own admission, the video game exec launched a DJI drone during the fires last month and it crashed into a firefighting plane. He’ll pay $65,169 to repair the plane and do 150 ...

TL;DR: Peter Tripp Akemann, a co-founder of a Call of Duty studio, has admitted guilt for crashing a drone into a firefighting aircraft during efforts to extinguish wildfires in Los Angeles.

Akemann flew the drone more than 1.5 mi. before losing sight of the aircraft. The half-pound drone struck and damaged the CL-415, leaving a 3 X 6-in. hole in its left wing, as it battled the wildfire.

A Southern California man operating a drone that collided ... said. The crash occurred on the third day of the wildfire in Los Angeles County. The aircraft landed safely, the FAA said in a statement.

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The Canadian firefighting aircraft − a Super Scooper plane, Quebec 1 −was grounded Jan. 9 after being hit by the civilian drone flying over the fire near the Pacific Coast, the Federal Aviation ...