The man who crashed a drone into and damaged a water-dropping aircraft as it fought the devastating Palisades Fire earlier this month was identified on Friday as Peter Akemann, a former UC ...

They said Akemann admitted in the agreement that he crashed the drone into the Super Scooper aircraft on Jan. 9, causing it to be taken out of commission temporarily as the Palisades Fire raged.

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 ...

9 collision of a DJI Mini 3 Pro with a firefighting aircraft provided by the government of Quebec to help L.A. battle its destructive wildfires made national headlines. The crash damaged a wing of ...

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.

A Culver City man has agreed to plead guilty to recklessly operating a drone that crashed into and damaged a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft battling the Palisades Fire earlier this month ...

The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary report on Thursday into what went wrong at a Florida drone show last month that caused some of the aircraft to go rogue ...

A California man is facing legal consequences after crashing his drone into a firefighting plane at the height of the Palisades Fire earlier this month. According to court documents obtained by ...

But on Thursday, a drone that was flying around Pacific Palisades without authorization crashed into the plane’s wing. The Federal Aviation Administration has implemented multiple Temporary ...

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.