‘I Lose Sleep’ Over Drones Hitting Firefighting Super Scooper Planes: CEO [Video]

The CEO of a company that flies “Super Scooper” firefighting planes said one of his biggest worries is drones crashing into his planes during emergencies like the Los Angeles wildfires.

As the fires raged last week, a consumer drone collided with Quebec-1, one of only two Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper aircraft fighting the Palisades fire.

The planes didn’t belong to Bridger Aerospace, but the company’s interim CEO Sam Davis said it’s something he’s long feared.

“My greatest fear — and I lose sleep at night — is something like that drone strike that happened on the Quebec Scooper, because you can’t do anything about that,” Davis told Business Insider in an interview.

There were no injuries in the incident, but it took out a chunk of the firefighting capacity during one of the most costly natural disasters in US history.

The FBI announced a search for the owner of the drone, which punched a fist-sized hole in the plane’s wing, …