{"id":172193,"date":"2025-02-02T17:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T07:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/man-pleads-guilty-drone-crash-canadair-cl-415-fighting-la-fires\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T17:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T07:54:09","slug":"man-pleads-guilty-in-drone-crash-with-canadair-cl-415-water-bomber-fighting-la-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=172193","title":{"rendered":"Man Pleads Guilty In Drone Crash With Canadair CL-415 Water Bomber Fighting LA Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a stunning development, not just did US federal law enforcement authorities track down the drone pilot whose DJI Mini 3 Pro crashed into a Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper, but they found the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"15058\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/drones\/\"  >drone&#8217;s<\/a><\/span> pilot in Peter Akemann of Culver City, California to plead guilty on February 1, 2025 in             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"136398\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >United States<\/a><\/span> District Court for the Central District of             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"184132\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/california\/\"  >California<\/a><\/span> to unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 39B(a)(2), (c)(1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We look at the disregarded safeguards that led to a DJI Mini 3 Pro hitting a CL-415 fighting a wildfire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1977,595,23,4160,423,13210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airspace","category-aviation-news","category-california","category-drones","category-united-states","category-wildfires"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172194,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172193\/revisions\/172194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}