Mark Bagguley flew his drone despite knowing there would be a flypast, a court hears
The offences came to light thanks to a member of the public, who had been photographing the HurricaneA man who flew a drone close to a Hurricane aircraft while thousands of people were standing underneath has been fined £3,000.
"We had 15,000 to 20,000 persons present at Buxton at the time. That would have caused a catastrophe in its own right."This one was one of two operated by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, based at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire. Neither police nor the pilot of the Hurricane knew the drone was in the sky at the time of the flypast, which was on 9 July last year.
"At first it looked like a bird or something like that, and then I zoomed it in and you could see the drone."The photographer initially thought the drone was a bird when he zoomed in"I know all the regulations and I knew it shouldn't have been flying," he said. He pleaded guilty to endangering an aircraft at a previous hearing at Chesterfield Magistrates' Court.
In the letter, Bagguley said: "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."Defence barrister Laura Broome, who represented Bagguley at Derby Crown Court, said he was "clearly very excited about the carnival" and "thought he had sufficient time to fly the drone before the flypast began".
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