A man has been fined £3,000 and given a six-month suspended prison sentence after he was found guilty of flying a drone too close to a “priceless” World War II-era plane last summer.
The only reason Bagguley faced consequences for his actions was that a photographer happened to capture the Hurricane flyby and after taking a look at the images he shot after the event, noticed the drone.
“To be honest, until I had got the photos on the computer I didn’t know the drone were flying,” the photographer, who opted to remain anonymous,“At first it looked like a bird or something like that, and then I zoomed it in and you could see the drone.” He reported the event to the Civil Aviation Authority, who then told him to contact the police. After searching social media for anyone who might have taken aerial photos that day, Bagguley was identified, arrested, and his drone seized. Authorities were able to confirm that his drone had been in the air by checking its recorded flight data which overlapped with the flight path of the Hurricane.
“I owe the pilot an apology for unnecessarily putting his and other people’s lives at risk that day. I can only thank God that no collision occurred,” Bagguley wrote in a letter apologizing for his actions, which was read in court.reports that Bagguley has been fined £3,000 and been given a six-month suspended prison sentence. He has also been ordered to complete 100 hours of community service and will be electronically monitored so that he obeys a curfew at his home.
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