(KUSA) In a first-of-its-kind federal prosecution, a German national who crashed a drone into Yellowstone National Park’s Lake Yellowstone has received one year of unsupervised probation as well as a one-year ban from the park, 9Wants To Know learned.
Andreas Meissner, 37, operated an unmanned aircraft – known as a Phantom 2 – over the marina at Lake Yellowstone on July 18. The drone crashed shortly after takeoff after appearing to suffer power loss. The drone and a video card located inside an attached GoPro camera were eventually recovered by a diver 10 days later.
The crash came a month after the National Park Service banned the use of unmanned aircraft throughout the national park system. Two other drone operators face similar federal charges.
Andreas Meissner, 37, operated an unmanned aircraft – known as a Phantom 2 – over the marina at Lake Yellowstone on July 18. The drone crashed shortly after takeoff after appearing to suffer power loss. The drone and a video card located inside an attached GoPro camera were eventually recovered by a diver 10 days later.
The crash came a month after the National Park Service banned the use of unmanned aircraft throughout the national park system. Two other drone operators face similar federal charges.
