FBI: The FBI is investigating an incident that occurred on the morning of Thursday, January 9, 2025, where an unauthorized drone flying in violation of an FAA
temporary flight restriction (TFR) collided with a firefighting aircraft. ... The FBI has set up a Digital Media Tipline, and is seeking the public’s help in order to identify the operator of the drone. Anyone with information, photos, and/or
video footage of the incident is asked to submit them to http://www.fbi.gov/palisadesdronestrike.
#Drone #PalisadesFire #FBI #tips
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deewani
In response to this post@ai6yr The scuttlebutt I read about this via FirePhotoGirl is not good.
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Chuck
In response to this post@ai6yr If they have the drone's computer they can back track the serial number to where it was sold and possibly who bought it. If it was a DJI drone it had to have a DJI user account.
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Arapalla
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What muppet puts a drone up in an active bushfire zone with air ops?
Some people are as dumb as a box of hammers.
If they catch him, he can pay for the damage to the plane and losses on the ground as a result of that grounding.
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Dervish
In response to this post@ai6yr It sounds as if they may not have enough pieces of the (probably destroyed) drone to identify it. I assume it's just operator stupidity for thinking the law didn't apply to them, and hope they get a hefty fine as a reminder.
Of course, the conspiracy theorist part of me wonders if this is an FBI effort to frighten people from future use of drones.
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JamesK
In response to this post@ai6yr As someone who’s been flying r/c since childhood, I can say that I doubt that you can appreciate how much this fucking pisses me off that it could even come to pass. I don’t mean the fbi.
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