The drone strike punched a hole in the CL-415’s wing and caused all firefighting aircraft on the Palisades fire to be temporarily grounded.
A drone’s collision with a water-dropping seaplane from Canada fighting the Palisades fire in Los Angeles caused temporary grounding of all aircraft working that fire. This strike took out one of just two seaplanes capable of repeatedly scooping 1,600 gallons of water from the ocean and delivering it onto nearby flames.
A Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper turboprop seaplane smashed into a drone around 10 a.m. local time.
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Landing gear aircraft are fighting the fire in addition to the two seaplanes. The largest of these is the DC-10. The large aircraft is assisted in its fire-dropping by a smaller support aircraft. My short video about it.
