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The drone pilot who took out an LA firefighting plane pleads guilty to escape jail

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Peter Akemann , 56 , flew his DJI Mini 3 Pro drone into a Super Scooper water dumping plane fighting the Los Angeles Palisades wildfires on January 9th .

Authorities traced the drone back to him, and he agreed Friday to plead guilty in exchange for 150 hours of community service in support of wildfire relief and the roughly $65,000 it cost to repair the plane.

Akemann isn’t just any old drone pilot, but rather the former president and chief technologist of video game developer Skydance Interactive .