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Ex-Skydance Executive Pleads Guilty To “Recklessly” Operating Drone That Crashed Into Super Scooper During L.A. Wildfires – Update

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A former Hollywood video game exec won't serve a day in prison for his drone damaging and grounding an aircraft that was fighting the LA wildfires.

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Ex-Skydance Executive Pleads Guilty To “Recklessly” Operating Drone That Crashed Into Super Scooper During L.A. Wildfires – Update

A former Hollywood video game exec won't serve a day in prison for his drone damaging and grounding an aircraft that was fighting the LA wildfires.

·Los Angeles, United States
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SoCal Man Pleads Guilty After Crashing Drone Into Super Scooper During Fire

A Culver City man pleaded guilty Feb. 12 to recklessly operating a drone during the Palisades Fire last month and crashing it into a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles announced. Peter Tripp Akemann, 56, agreed at the end of January to plead guilty after federal prosecutors charged him with a misdemeanor. He faces up to one year in prison. “This defendant recklessly flew an aircraft into airspace where…

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Drone-Super Scooper crash: Man pleads guilty

LOS ANGELES — A Culver City man pleaded guilty Thursday to recklessly operating a drone that crashed into and damaged a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft battling the Palisades Fire last month.

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Update: Hollywood exec pleads guilty to crashing drone into LA firefighting plane

It was a reckless decision with serious consequences. Peter Tripp Akemann, a 56-year-old Los Angeles resident, has pleaded guilty to crashing his drone into a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft battling the Palisades Fire last month. According to the US Attorney’s Office, the former president of Skydance Interactive entered his plea to a federal class-A misdemeanor count of unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft. This misdemeanor carries a po…

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Culver City Drone Operator To Plead Guilty In Landmark Super Scooper Collision Case

In a precedent-setting case highlighting the serious consequences of unauthorized drone operations during emergency response situations, a Culver City resident is scheduled to plead guilty Wednesday to federal charges after his drone collided with and damaged a firefighting aircraft during the Palisades Fire in January 2025, reports ABC7 Los Angeles. The incident marks one of the first criminal prosecutions for drone interference with aerial fir…

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