Former president of Skydance Interactive Peter Akemann pleaded guilty today to recklessly operating a drone that crashed into and damaged a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft battling the Palisades Fire last month.

As part of his plea agreement, Peter Tripp Akemann agreed to pay full restitution of just over $65,000 to the government of Quebec, which supplied the plane, and an aircraft repair company that handled the necessary fixes.

The defendant has agreed to pay more than $65,000 in restitution and faces up to a year in federal prison, prosecutors said.

A former Hollywood video game exec won't serve a day in prison for his drone damaging and grounding an aircraft that was fighting the LA wildfires.

Federal charges were announced Friday in connection to a civilian drone that hit and damaged a water-dropping super scooper aircraft during the destructive Palisades Fire.

A Culver City man will plead guilty to operating the drone that damaged and temporarily grounded a Canadian Super Scooper firefighting plane while crews battled the deadly Palisades fire, federal prosecutors announced on Friday, Jan. 31.