Gary Mortimer
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Remember that quad bouncing off buildings and landing at the foot of somebody standing outside of Grand Central Station..
Well they found him.
NEW YORK (WABC) – He’s a musician from Brooklyn but he has struck a wrong note with the NYPD who tracked him down after our story aired and charged the inexperienced, drone operator with reckless endangerment.
It’s his own video that helped the NYPD nail David Zablidowsky . The 34-year-old musician from Brooklyn is clearly seen at the controls of the drone.
The video recovered by a financial analyst who handed it over to Eyewitness News, after he nearly took a direct hit when the small helicopter drone similar to this one, crashed at his feet while walking near Grand Central.
Days after the video aired on Eyewitness News, Police arrested Zablidowsky for “reckless endangerment” for “flying a remote control helicopter off a balcony, losing control, causing it to crash to the ground from an unreasonable height creating a substantial risk of serious physical injury.”
http://www.suasnews.com/2013/10/25636/brooklyn-man-arrested-for-flying-drone-over-manhattan/
Lets hope this and the Trappy case does not force the FAA/DHS hands into their original ARC 1 desire which was to stop all model flying in Class B airspace nationwide other than at AMA sanctioned fields.
The AMA were all for that but it did'nt happen. The AMA is not part of the ARC 2 round having been satisfied that HR 658 covers there needs.
Remember that quad bouncing off buildings and landing at the foot of somebody standing outside of Grand Central Station..
Well they found him.
NEW YORK (WABC) – He’s a musician from Brooklyn but he has struck a wrong note with the NYPD who tracked him down after our story aired and charged the inexperienced, drone operator with reckless endangerment.
It’s his own video that helped the NYPD nail David Zablidowsky . The 34-year-old musician from Brooklyn is clearly seen at the controls of the drone.
The video recovered by a financial analyst who handed it over to Eyewitness News, after he nearly took a direct hit when the small helicopter drone similar to this one, crashed at his feet while walking near Grand Central.
Days after the video aired on Eyewitness News, Police arrested Zablidowsky for “reckless endangerment” for “flying a remote control helicopter off a balcony, losing control, causing it to crash to the ground from an unreasonable height creating a substantial risk of serious physical injury.”
http://www.suasnews.com/2013/10/25636/brooklyn-man-arrested-for-flying-drone-over-manhattan/
Lets hope this and the Trappy case does not force the FAA/DHS hands into their original ARC 1 desire which was to stop all model flying in Class B airspace nationwide other than at AMA sanctioned fields.
The AMA were all for that but it did'nt happen. The AMA is not part of the ARC 2 round having been satisfied that HR 658 covers there needs.
