Former Skydance Interactive President Pleads Guilty to Piloting Drone That Crashed Into Plane During Palisades Fire

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/local-news/ex-skydance-exec-piloted-drone-crashed-plane-palisades-fire-1236123911/

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  4. These planes are absolutely gigantic in real life. They helped on a wildfire where I’m from and it was nothing short of surreal to watch them in action. Hats off to these pilots flying these.

    https://youtu.be/fuLk5hXMRZY?si=KNZ_ASVhP26nj_JJ

    Did he turn himself in or what? This is some pretty ignorant shit. People could have died. Would be interested to know if he realized that he hit that plane or not. He should be made an example of. Could have easily brought that plane down if it had hit one of the engines or critical hydraulics in the wing.

    Edit: looks like he got some community service and some hefty repair bills, not that he can’t pay for them because he’s rich, I would have made it 1000 hours of community service personally. He would feel that for sure. There’s a lot of cleanup to do down there.

  5. The former Skydance President’s lawyer (Tonald Drump) told reporters, “This is a witchhunt. Plain and simple”. Reporters reached out to the drones lawyer but received no response.

  6. Fuck this guy- he should be in jail for a long time. Unfortunately he wont be.

  7. Maximum punishment, no mercy. Fuck that rich sack of shit. It was probably a game to him.

  8. LMAO i didn’t realize until reading that is fucking peter akemann, that tracks

  10. New fear unlocked. Don’t think I’m ever going to be a recreational drone owner.

  11. People died in that fire. Billions of dollars worth of property went up in smoke. That POS prevented firefighting activity and took a plane out of service. Penalty should be massive

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