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  "id": "palisades-2025-01-09",
  "title": "Drone collision damages a firefighting aircraft",
  "place": "Palisades fire area",
  "country": "United States",
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  "date": "2025-01-09",
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  "summary": "The US transportation inspector general describes a drone collision with a firefighting aircraft during the Palisades wildfire response.",
  "impact": "Aircraft wing damage grounded the firefighting aircraft for several days.",
  "evidence": "The government case summary explicitly describes a collision and physical aircraft damage.",
  "unknown": "This dossier does not establish the final court outcome.",
  "attribution": "A civilian operator was charged according to the cited case summary. Charges are not a final court finding.",
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    "statement": "A drone collided with a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft during the Palisades fire, leaving a hole in its wing.",
    "quote": "the drone collided with a Canadair CL2T Super Scooper firefighting aircraft, leaving a “football-sized” hole in the aircraft’s left wing that grounded it for several days",
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  "citation": "DroneLedger, “Drone collision damages a firefighting aircraft”, dossier palisades-2025-01-09, revision 2, updated 2026-10-12. https://droneincidents.com/incident/palisades-2025-01-09/",
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