Daniel Cesare flew the drone over East Midlands Airport in an attempt to get footage of Download Festival.
A man has been fined almost £1,500 for flying a drone over one of the country’s busiest airports to get footage of a festival.
Footage from the drone shows both day and night-time shots of the festival, with a plane seen landing in the footage. Cesare appeared for sentencing at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates Court in Derby on Friday, and was fined £1,008 for flying in the flight restriction zone, and given no separate penalty for all other matters.East Midlands Airport was the busiest airport in the country for cargo flights in June, according to data from the Civil Aviation Authority, and one of the busiest passenger airports.
“He also showed disregard for the tens of thousands of people attending the Download Festival and their safety, flying the drone out of his line of sight ran the risk of him losing control of that aircraft, which could’ve had catastrophic consequences.
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