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LAPD helicopter makes emergency landing after being hit by drone at Encino brush fire (abc7.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by 0xebfe@lemmy.today to c/aviation@lemmy.world

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Water-dropping choppers were brought in to help keep the fire from spreading. The Los Angeles Police Department said a drone smacked into one of its helicopters, which was dispatched to the scene of the fire. Police said the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing.

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[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is there any reason to think they weren't assisting?

It's the LAPD...

I'm from a different country, in a different continent, and even I know of their infamous uselessness, institutional racism, and brutality.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes yes, ACAB. That still doesn't make your answer in any way relevant.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You don't think the past actions of an organisation is relevant in determining what their present day actions may be?

Do you have any reason to believe they were assisting?

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

at about 2:52 p.m., the helicopter returned to the Tarzana area along the 101 Freeway between Balboa Boulevard and Reseda Boulevard, just more than 1.5 miles from the fire in Encino, to assist officers searching for a reported kidnapping suspect.