Follow up: September 2025 – Calif. tech exec who hit firefighter plane with drone gets prison time
Ph.D. in math from UC Berkeley, founder of Treyarch Corporation which was sold to Activision, and later CEO of SkyDance – Peter Akemann flew his drone 1.5 miles away, well beyond the legal line of sight: Drone crash at Palisades Fire blamed on tech exec with Berkeley Ph.D.
A fire fighting aircraft, flying over the fire zone, collided with Akemann’s drone, punching a whole in the front of the firefighting aircraft’s wing, grounding the aircraft until repairs could be completed.
Proof that having a UC Berkeley Ph.D. does not mean you have common sense, or the brains to be familiar with FAA rules and regulations.
Some of his video game titles through about 2008.
