A firefighting Super Scooper aircraft collided with a drone while battling intense California wildfires, raising serious safety concerns. This video explores how unauthorized drones pose risks to ...

Appearing in court in downtown LA this afternoon on a criminal misdemeanor and one count of unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft, the 56-year-old Akemann ... The Super Scooper accident was ...

A drone that authorities say was flying in restricted airspace on Jan. 9 put a fist-sized hole in the wing of a Super Scooper ... “Discharging a laser at an aircraft can blind the pilot putting ...

What’s Really Going On With All These Drone Stories?Morris Plains, NJ, Feb. 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- When flying objects ...

Nearly 70 years old and now retired ... I can already barely afford my rent and necessities.” An aircraft known as a ‘super scooper’ battles the Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon Fires in ...

It also was learned today that the remains of 95-year-old Dalyce Curry ... of reinforcements and air tankers, though its Super Scooper plane — which can gather 1,500 gallons of ocean water ...

Two super scooper planes were sitting on the tarmac in Burns Flat to be ready at a moment’s notice. The planes get their nickname from the ability to “scoop” up thousands of ...

A Culver City man pleaded guilty Wednesday to recklessly operating a drone that crashed into and damaged a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft battling the Palisades Fire last month. Peter Tripp ...

The familiar, water-dropping aircraft are leased by the fire department from Quebec each year to help fend off wildfires. “We have no plans to change our leasing of the Super Scoopers ...