Peter Akemann Blames DJI Geofence "Failure" for Drone Collision with Firefighting Aircraft

He's the guy that flew the Mini 3 drone into the water bomber wing during the LA fires. His attorney said "There are a number of mitigating factors that will come to light during the court proceedings including Mr Akemann's reliance on the DJI Drone's geo fencing safeguard feature and the failure of that feature."

Obviously the temporary flight restriction wasn't in the drone FlySafe database, but I wouldn't call that a "failure". He also flew it 1.5 miles away, far beyond visual line of sight.

Folks, this is why DJI removed the geofence feature. Too many idiots want to blame it instead of taking responsibility for their own flying. "But it let me fly there" is not an excuse for violating airspace restrictions. Everybody needs to check a B4UFLY app beforehand.