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Ex-Skydance Executive Escapes Prison Time After Admitting To “Recklessly” Operating Drone That Crashed Into Super Scooper During L.A. Wildfires
A former Hollywood video game exec won't serve a day in prison for his drone damaging & grounding an aircraft that was fighting the LA wildfires
A drone owned and piloted by the ex-president of Skydance Interactive damaged and temporarily grounded a Canadian Super Scooper during some of the worst and most destructive days of the wildfires that left swath of LA no more than ash, but Peter Akemann has escaped a potential sentence of a year behind bars. In fact, thanks to a plea deal with the feds and an apparent software glitch, Akemann won’t serve a single day in prison for “recklessly” flying the DJI Mini 3 Pro into the wing of the Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper on January 9, according to Acting United States Attorney Joseph T. McNally today. Emphasizing that their industry vert client is ‘deeply sorry” and “accepts responsibility for his grave error in judgment,” Akemann’s lawyers Glen T. Jonas and Vicki Podberesky said today that the loss of control was based in part on the drone’s “geo fencing safeguard feature” failing.
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