Hell pay $65,169 to repair the plane and do 150 hours of community service related to wildfire relief.
Akemann is a 56-year-old gaming veteran with along historyin the industry.
The crash tore a 3-inch by 6-inch hole in the left wing and it had to land.
The hole left behind after Treyarch’s co-founder crashed a drone into a firefighting plane.© FBI photo.
According to local news, the crash delayed firefighting efforts by a half-hour.
The reaction to the crash was swift.
But those warnings can be bypassed.
Despite that, Californias state fire department reported 168 drone incursions into restricted airspaceduring the wildfires.
DJI also took the odd step of eliminating its geo-fencing policy altogether with asoftware updateon January 13.
The drone crash had happened four days before.
DJI said that this update was made to comply with European and U.S. regulations.
At the end of the day, the drone operator is responsible for following the rules.
We put this in place about 12 years ago.
In effect, geo-fencing wouldnt stop those bad actors in the first place.
If youre a person of bad intent, you would have disabled the geo-fencing anyway.
Welsh is a corporate head of a major tech manufacturer, but hes also not wrong.
Akemann flew his DJI Min 3 Pro into a wildfire.
The ultimate responsibility is on the person flying the drone.
Public officials were harsh in theirritual scoldingof Akemann in the DOJ press release about his guilty plea.
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