News

On Thursday, January 9, 2025, a “Super Scooper” plane fighting the Palisade fire collided with a drone that tore a hole in ...
Customers can order food from dozens of local restaurants, delivered straight to their backyard in minutes via Flytrex drone.
Experts at the Energy Drones + Robotics Conference highlight how communication and cooperation improve drone disaster ...
It was then that the drone collided with the Super Scooper, opening a 3- by 6-inch hole in the left wing. The damage took the vitally needed plane out of commission.
Pilot of Drone That Grounded Blaze-Battling ‘Super Scooper’ Pleads Guilty Peter Tripp Akemann of Culver City, California, faces up to one year in federal prison for the accident.
A Culver City man will plead guilty to operating the drone that damaged and temporarily grounded a Canadian Super Scooper firefighting plane while crews battled the deadly Palisades fire, federal ...
The drone collided into a Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper the Government of Quebec had supplied to Los Angeles firefighters, which was carrying two crewmembers when it was struck on Jan. 9 ...
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – A 56-year-old Culver City man has agreed to plead guilty to “recklessly operating a drone” that ended up crashing into and damaging a Super Scooper as it was fighting ...
The Super Scooper damaged by a drone was repaired, but grounded at a critical time in the fight against one of the deadliest and most destructive fires on record in California.
A Super Scooper tackling the LA wildfires. Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The rogue drone was unsettling news for Davis' company, which has sent two of its own Super ...