Peter Akemann, co -founder of Studio Treyarch, could go to prison – News

Forgive the slightly cryptic title: it takes several lines to explain the why of the how. Prepare yourself, this story can easily enter the annals of the absurd. In the video game, we mainly know Peter Akemann for his role as co-founder of the Treyarch studio (who recently published Call of Duty: Black Ops 6), even if he recently officiated as president of Skydance Interactive (Behemoth , The Walking Dead: Sains & Sinners). Today, it is rather on the news side that the friend is talking about him.
During the month of January of this year, impressive fires touched Los Angeles and its surroundings. To try to reduce their impact, many helicopters and planes have been deployed by the city to pour large amounts of water over fire. All accessible resources have been put into service for the occasion. All, except one: a super scooping fireplace (capable of carrying about 3,700 liters of water) had to stay on the ground. And this, because of a man: Peter Akemann.
On January 9, the latter was indeed toy with a drone, and the latter unfortunately crushed against the left wing of the plane, damaging it and immobilizing it for several days: in doing so, the tool was Completely inoperable when we needed him most. The problem is that at the time of the accident, the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States (FAA) had logically set up temporary restrictions prohibiting drones from flying near forest fires in Southern California (to avoid this kind of incident). Now Akemann had only what to do: he launched his drone from a parking lot close to his home to monitor the fire, lost control 2 kilometers away. And patatras.
After investigation, the authorities finally raised trace of the drone to Akemann. Faced with the fact, he agreed to plead guilty for an indictment of dangerous exploitation of an unmanned aircraft – a minor offense punishable by a prison sentence that can go up to a year. But Akemann obviously hopes for a less heavy sentence: his lawyer pleads for 150 hours of community service for the benefit of the fight against forest fires, as well as a payment of $ 65,000 (the estimated sum to encompass the repairs of the ). It is important to note thatkmann indicates ” assume responsibility for its serious error of judgment and cooperates with the government in order to repair its wrongs (According to his lawyers), but accused in parallel the DJI drone manufacturer of a failure of the georepage functionality, which, according to him, is responsible for the accident.