A California man says he thinks the $20,000 in fines and fees he’s been assessed are unfair after his runaway drone landed next to an active runway at Las Vegas’s McCarran International Airport during a visit by President Donald Trump. In fact, in the caption accompanying the video he posted to YouTube of the flight from the Las Vegas Strip to McCarran, he suggests the Secret Service took control of the drone. “Drone was intercepted by secret service. Even after showing it was a system failure i was still fined 15,000!!!” he wrote. With late fees accruing from the FAA violation notice the total is now about $20,000 and Rueben Burciaga has not yet heard from the Secret Service.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/drone-pilot-protests-fine-after-it-lands-at-mccarran