HD Hyundai Heavy Industries revealed a model of the 15,000-tonne HCX-23 Plus drone carrier in late May at the 2025 International Maritime Defence Industry Exhibition in the South Korean port city ...

Then the DJI drone crashed into a Super Scooper firefighting plane that was on hand to dump water onto the fires. The crash tore a 3-inch by 6-inch hole in the left wing and it had to land.

According to the US Attorney's Office, Akemann launched the drone from the top of a Santa Monica parking garage and lost sight of it at least a mile-and-a-half away before it collided with the plane.

The drone pilot who took out an LA firefighting plane pleads guilty to escape prison He’ll likely pay $65,000 and do community service. by Sean Hollister Jan 31, 2025, 3:54 PM PST ...

A Culver City man will plead guilty to operating the drone that damaged and temporarily grounded a Canadian Super Scooper firefighting plane while crews battled the deadly Palisades fire, federal ...

A California man has agreed to pay more than $65,000 in restitution and faces up to a year in federal prison for operating a drone that collided with a firefighting aircraft during the early days ...

The most obvious way that a drone can take down a plane is if it gets ingested in its engine. Even though the most powerful jet engines output hundreds of thousands of pounds of thrust, these are ...

The FBI is searching for whoever flew a drone that damaged a firefighting plane in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Fire Department said on X, formerly Twitter, this SuperScooper plane was flying over ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A Canadian firefighting aircraft was grounded and pulled from California after being hit and damaged by a drone. Officials say the drone was flown over the wildfires illegally.

FBI images show the damage done to a Canadian Super Scooper plane that was hit by a drone while battling the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles on Jan. 9, 2025. A Super Scooper is capable of collecting ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at a Trump rally in Savannah, Georgia, on September 24, 2024. The lawmaker said her plane to Washington, D.C., was rerouted due to drone activity. Brandon Bell ...