One of only two Super Scooper planes helping to fight the Los Angeles wildfires has been taken out of action after it collided with a drone on Thursday. In a statement, the Federal Aviation ...

A Culver City man agreed to plead guilty in connection with an unauthorized drone's collision with a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft that was flying over the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles County.

After visual was lost, the drone collided with the Super Scooper, which was carrying two crewmembers. The accident caused a temporary pause in all aerial firefighting assistance responding to the ...

PREVIOUSLY on January 31: Peter Akemann, the former president of Skydance Interactive who was the owner and pilot of a drone that damaged and temporarily grounded a Canadian Super Scooper during ...

A second super scooper is ready to fly again this week to help battle fires. It was damaged several days ago by a civilian drone illegally flying in the Palisades fire area. Super scoopers are able to ...

We covered this story a bit when it happened (second item), which resulted in the drone striking and damaging the leading edge of a Canadian “Super Scooper” plane that was trying to fight the ...