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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.
PREVIOUSLY on January 31: Peter Akemann, the former president of Skydance Interactive who was the owner and pilot of a drone that damaged and temporarily grounded a Canadian Super Scooper during some of the most destructive days of the Los Angeles wildfires, has escaped a prison sentence. 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 his DJI Mini 3 Pro into the wing of the Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper on January 9, Acting United States Attorney Joseph T. McNally said Friday. Emphasizing that their 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 failure of the drone’s “geofencing safeguard feature.”
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