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UK Man Gets Britain's First-Ever Conviction For Illegal Drone Use

Posted by timothy on from the poke-poke-poke-poke-slap dept.

jfruh writes: Nigel Wilson of Nottingham was quite a drone enthusiast: he flew a drone over a Champions League soccer match low enough to startle police horses, and at other times flew drones over iPro Stadium in Derby, the Emirates Stadium in north London, and near the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, the HMS Belfast and the Shard tower in London. He's been convicted under the Air Navigation Order 2009 and fined £1,800.

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  1. Re:Shite by C0R1D4N · · Score: 4, Informative

    It does make sense. The ship is a museum parked in the river. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. Re: Shite by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Note the emphasis on the word "the".

  3. Re:Seems like a reasonable rule set and outcome by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 2, Informative

    Great risks seem unlikely unless the drone was carrying something really bad.

    What it was carrying was "mass" with a failure mode of "plummet."

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