Drone collides AND grounds a firefighting Super Scooper in LA...

[VenomXts]

This @#%# pi$$es me off so much.....

Drone collides with firefighting aircraft over Palisades fire, FAA says

Several viral videos and images appeared to be taken with drones in conflict with a temporary flight restriction issued by the Federal Aviation Administration to protect firefighting aircraft.

www.latimes.com

“We hit a drone this afternoon — first one,” said L.A. County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone. “Our Super Scooper hit a small drone.”

He said the incident occurred over the Palisades fire Thursday. He didn’t have details on who was flying the drone, but said the drone was destroyed and the Super Scooper — a massive fixed-wing plane that can drop large amounts of water — was damaged.

“It put a hole in the wing,” he said. “It’s grounded now.”

 

[Bad Santa]

I was going to ask if there was anyone down there taking drone videos of the destruction. Then I realized there's probably a lot of TFR going on.
It appears someone didn't get the memo.

P.S. Getting pissed at things one cannot control is pointless.

 

[Jim622]

I won't allow their ads, so I can't read it.

 

[jaja6009]

I hope they find and prosecute the person.

 

[Cafguy]

They aren't letting anyone near the areas without permission and are threatening arrest of anyone caught trying. They are catching looters thank goodness BUT the area is just too big to fully cover! The devastation is too much for words! Now I know what it would look like if a nuke went off in the Palisades.
You know things are bad when Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) is running down the street telling people to get out Fast!

 

[ryguy80]

Everyone with their drones out trying to make it about themselves as fire chasers. Let wildfire and EMT officials do their thing.

Based on Fox 11 L.A. footage, it looks like a plane on loan from Quebec, Canada that was hit.

 

[Bad Santa]

Everyone with their drones out trying to make it about themselves as fire chasers. Let wildfire and EMT officials do their thing.

Based on Fox11 footage, it looks like a plane on loan from Quebec, Canada.

It's probably Chinese spy drones. Or aliens from NJ

 

[AMann]

One of the well known feux news agencies (I won’t mention) was showing drone footage earlier today that was actually flying over actively burning buildings and over fire trucks and crews in action. I think I know why some idiots want to fly in these situations, I wonder how much they are getting for the footage. Shame on the news for showing and sensationalizing it.

 

[Bad Santa]

One of the well known feux news agencies (I won’t mention) was showing drone footage earlier today that was actually flying over actively burning buildings and over fire trucks and crews in action. I think I know why some idiots want to fly in these situations, I wonder how much they are getting for the footage.

Kind of makes me wonder how press passes play into disaster situations.

 

[DARKSeifer]

If they hit a drone, remainins of that drone will be all around the impact area, so show a forensic report about it with pics and a detailed analysis or else it's just clickbait.

As we've seen hundreds of times, everything is a drone these days, so why should I batter the real drone community about it without a single proof but plain text? Who knows.

You hit something with a plane, it was a drone, end of story. So glad the korean airliner didn't jump on the "we hit a drone and had to crash-land and everyone died" clickbait wagon.