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In reply to the discussion: Kentucky man shoots down drone hovering over his backyard [View all]Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)The pilot of the drone shot down Sunday evening over a Kentucky property has now come forward with video provided to Ars, seemingly showing that the drone wasnt nearly as close as the property owner made it out to be. However, the federal legal standard for how far into the air a persons private property extends remains in dispute.
According to the telemetry provided by David Boggs, the drone pilot, his aircraft was only in flight for barely two minutes before it was shot down. The data also shows that it was well over 200 feet above the ground before the fatal shots fired by William Merideth.
David Boggs provided this video to Ars, which he describes as his "statement."
Boggs told Ars that this was the maiden voyage of his DJI Phantom 3, and that his intentions were not to snoop on anyonehis aim was simply to fly over a vacationing friends property, a few doors away from Merideths property in Hillview, Kentucky, south of Louisville.
"The truth is that this man lied and he's doubling down," Boggs said. "The video speaks for itself."
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/new-drone-telemetry-suggests-shot-down-drone-was-higher-than-alleged/
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