The pilot of the Phantom that crashed on a Manhattan street earlier this month has been arrested, ABC reports:
David Zablidowsky of Brooklyn has been charged with "Reckless Endangerment" for allegedly losing control of a helicopter drone at "an unreasonable height creating a substantial risk of serious physical injury".
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He deserves what he gets, but I do not think they will try to push anything more than reckless endangerment, for fear that they push too far and the defense takes them apart on whatever other charges they try and push. I don't think this will be a bad thing for the community actually.... It might be good. It could be one of the first cases of actual legal punishment from a drone related incident, and means we can get the people who really shouldn't be flying out of the airspace.
What a mong
There is no defence for this. Saying other crimes are easier to commit therefore this is ok is ridiculous. In the rc & UAV community we ll know one incident could trigger the whole can of worms which goes against our technology. Don't tempt fate by flying in built up areas where when the worse happens it could endanger the community or worse somebodys life.
Omg.. in simple words, this does two things:
1) Makes Phantom quadcopter business happy and more people are aware of it.
2) Endangers the autonomous platform for hobbyists, esp. for due to fear of videographing in public + in-near future requiring license to fly such copters.
Bad boy pilot!
This guy deserves all he gets, he might as well have thrown a lawnmower of his balcony. It sucks that this might impact the hobby adversely.
uppsss they did again!!!!
Its illegal to sell a large coke in a restaurant in NY so this is really no surprise. No you should not do it and I would not, but no one was hit or hurt so an arrest is overboard, I feel a fine would have been more appropriate.
If these are the most important things the cops have to do in NY then I guess it must be the safest city on earth.
Its only a matter of time that the press and public start pushing grounding UAV things in the US.
So appropriate.
I like the first thing the guy does is remove and take the card. Is that not called theft? Then he calls a TV news station then posts the video online. Looking for fame maybe.
Isn't it normal to arrest a phantom at Halloween ? ;)
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