https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-sopfeu-plane-grounded-1.7427777A Quebec water bomber fighting the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles has been grounded after it collided with a drone flying in restricted airspace, officials said. The collision left the CL-415 plane with a "sizable hole in its wing," said Christopher Thomas, a spokesperson with the California state firefighting agency, Cal Fire."Fortunately, they landed the plane without incident," Thomas said in an interview Friday.The incident downed all aircraft fighting the fire for nearly half an hour on Thursday while officials made sure the skies were clear, he said."We all know how fast a fire can travel in half an hour. So this is a seriously dangerous situation because now that fire is able to go a little more unchecked," he said."This makes me very angry. It is extremely irresponsible and people could have been killed."Laura Eimiller, a spokesperson for the FBI Los Angeles field office, told CBC News in an email that the incident is under investigation. The FBI's counter unmanned aircraft systems task force is in contact with the agency's local partners, she said.The Los Angeles Fire Department released photos of the plane, including one showing the damage. It said the plane was struck by "a civilian drone."Pilot says damage could've been catastrophicPilot Pascal Duclos was flying behind the plane when it collided with the drone. He said the damage could have been far worse — or even catastrophic — if the drone had been sucked into the air intake of the engine, or if the battery had caused a fire inside the wing, where the fuel is stored.Pilots have also been dealing with high winds while making difficult scoops from the ocean. Quebec pilots have made up to 23 drops per day since Tuesday, and both the waves and winds have calmed somewhat, he said.
As a proud Canadian who thanks providence that I wasn't born an American(l think 1/2 of Americans are OK, it's just the scum deplorable other 1/2 that make me want to puke) I don't want my tax $ going to save the million$+ mansions of HollyWoo rich. I don't like the unwashed poor ignorant MAGAT scum, but as a Buddhist, I believe that I must help them out of their ignorant scummery, so when their houses burn down, I'm OK with my tax $ being used
>>1374158Shut the fuck up, ranjeet. Indians are not canadians
>>1374158as another fellow canadian i'd prefer the democrat scum to burn. The magas are ok for now but the whole karen sthick is making me wish they got caught up in an earthquake next too. Democrats are scum though same with the shitheads who voted for trudeau.
>>1374158Go back to India
>>1374267Haha, I voted for the towel headed NDP leader, but then I'm old and want to see it all burn before I die, and the true MESSIAH walk in Jerusalem.
>>1374238Haha, NDP leader, Jagmeet Singh Jimmy Dhaliwal is so handsome with his square jaw and full beard and is of the true ARYAN race, whereas I bet your some le 56%er,(15 % Bantu, 20 % S. American aboriginal, 9 % Arab, and the 56% Mongolian white.
>>1374238Neither are white people. You're on Native Land. Go back to England or France or wherever the fuck you come from, Canada was built on immigration, dumbass bitch. If you're not Cree or Gwichin you're an immigrant.
>>1374341Hard to call someone an immigrant when they moved to a place that wasn't advanced enough to have a single national border, unless if you consider Cree or Gwichin immigrants for doing the same exact thing
>>1374343americans are bloody sand people who came to our lands and murdered people because they were too bloody stupid to know east from west.If anything civilization has regressed modern day americans are troglodytes
>>1374344Lmao. Native Americans were probably the second dumbest group of people in the world, they were discovered by Europeans in the 15th century and still hadn't entered the iron age, and their bronze age was nearly non existent
>>1374344Hard to call the people who sailed across the Atlantic "sand people" in comparison to the people they discovered were literal sustenance farmers who couldn't figure out writing, metalworking, and their woodworking was at the "sticks and branches" level of scientific advancement
>>1374345What does that have to do with the fact that you're a hypocrite? An immigrant who hates immigrants? Fuck all, you're deflecting.
Quickly! Ban all drones immediately even though this was already restricted airspace and drones aren't allowed to fly above 399 feet, near airports or any restricted areas, which this was restricted by NOTAM.
>>1374398I don't think anyone's calling for bans so much as calling the dude flying a drone a retard.
This wasn't a hobby drone. They couldn't do that much damage. Give it a week and we'll find out out was a government drone as usual
>>1374416It wasn't a massive amount of damage. Literally just a small gap in one of the wings. But that's enough to make it dangerous to fly.
>>1374409elected politicians have been calling for banning DJI and all drones for three years. You're uneducated and uninformed. Remote ID exists literally to ban drones. drone pilot licensing exists to ban drones.
