A California man is facing up to one year in federal prison for recklessly operating a drone that crashed into a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft as the crew was battling the devastating ...

You can get in touch with Jesus by emailing [email protected] Amid the inferno sweeping through Los Angeles, the amphibious CL-415 "Super Scooper" has proven essential in fighting California ...

That means they can dispense vast quantities of water on a continuous loop until they run out of fuel. Here’s what to know. The Super Scooper skims the water’s surface at 100 mph, collecting ...

"fill up tanks in 10 to 12 seconds — 1400 gallons of water — and continuously scoop and drop water on one tank of fuel." It takes a special kind of mindset to pilot a Super Scooper, he said ...

A "super scooper" that was damaged by a drone last ... lifesaving communications equipment last Thursday. Thanks to prior fuel treatment by the Angeles National Forest and the work of firefighters ...

Prosecutors filed a plea agreement in which they said Akemann admitted he crashed the drone into the Super Scooper aircraft on Jan. 9, causing it to be taken out of commission temporarily.

NBC Universal, Inc. One reason last week’s collision between a firefighting plane and a drone caused such a stir was because Los Angeles doesn’t have many spare “Super Scoopers” to take ...

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 ...

Peter Akemann, 56, of Culver City, has agreed to plead guilty to one count of unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft for the Jan. 9 drone collision, which damaged the Canadian "super scooper ...