The familiar, water-dropping aircraft are leased by the fire department from Quebec each year to help fend off California ...

As part of his plea agreement, Peter Tripp Akemann agreed to pay full restitution of just over $65,000 to the government of Quebec, which supplied the plane, and an aircraft repair company that ...

LOS ANGELES – A Culver City man agreed to plead guilty to recklessly operating a drone that crashed into and damaged a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft fighting the Palisades Fire earlier this ...

The Super Scooper accident was widely covered on local and national media during the fires, with shock outside Southern California that private drones were even allowed in firefighting zones at ...

Akemann was flying a DJI Mini 3 Pro drone over the Palisades fire when it collided with the wing of a Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper provided by the Quebec government. The damage was severe enough ...

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 ...

Peter Akemann, the man accused of damaging a super scooper plane with a drone while flying it over the Palisades Fire, has pleaded guilty. Trump administration erases mention of climate change and ...

Akemann went to the Third Street Promenade parking garage's top floor on Jan. 9, launched his drone and lost sight of it before it collided with a Super Scooper on loan from Quebec, officials said.

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.

As firefighters struggled to contain the devastating Palisades Fire in Los Angeles in early January, someone wanted a bird's eye view, and ended up hitting a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft ...

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 ...