a Texas The tourist crashed a drone at New York’s 7 World Trade Center while filming a video for Instagram, and was questioned for six hours by the NYPD’s Counter Terrorism Police before being released with a summons for city code violations.
Adam Ismail, 22, told followers that it ‘didn’t come to my mind’ that he was near the World Trade Center when he launched his $1,200 gadget, and admitted that it wasn’t until the police arrived later. He was ‘completely ignorant of what he did’.
Ismail lost control of his DJ Air 2s drone, and it got stuck between the windows and the metal façade just above the front entrance of the 42-story building – the first to be built after the 9/11 terror attacks Was.
Ismail shared drone footage of the crash with DailyMail.com, which showed a panning shot of the fountain in Silverstein Family Park in front of 7WTC.
Suddenly the camera shakes violently and as the drone crashes into the building, the streamed feed is cut off.
A smiling Ismail posted on Instagram that his first thought was ‘c**p, and I’ll be able to get that drone back?’
But he later posted pictures of the NYPD counter-terrorism police online, titled ‘This is not a joke’.
Laughing 22-year-old Adam Ismail told followers that it “didn’t come to my mind” that he was near the World Trade Center before crashing his $1,200 drone.
Instagrammer posted photos of NYPD counter-terrorism officers at the scene
Ismail shared drone footage of the crash with DailyMail.com, which showed a panning shot of the fountain in Silverstein Family Park in front of 7WTC.
After the drone crashed at 7 World Trade Center at around 3 p.m., Ismail went into the building to speak with front desk staff.
He explained: ‘I’m like ‘Hey man, I just crashed a drone into you all building, it’s a little embarrassing to tell someone right now but it’s what it is.’
‘Is there any way you, me or someone else can maneuver around the building and file a claim for my drone’s warranty?’
The building’s manager and chief engineer were called, and the trio saw the stranded drone before telling Ismail, he said, he hadn’t thought [he would be] getting [his] Drone back.’
The Texan said the September 11 attacks came to his mind only when he saw a group of three or four NYPD members waiting for him outside the building.
‘They interview me, ask me some questions: where am I from, what am I doing, why am I in New York and the chain of events that happened and everything,’ he recalled.
‘I’ve been asked the same questions I can count on two hands to confirm that I’m not BS my story and I’m here to do what I said I was doing.’
Adam Ismail, 22, said via Instagram that he was ‘completely ignorant of what he did’ until a cadre of police reported the incident
The 42-story 7 World Trade Center was the first to be rebuilt after the 9/11 terror attacks
The DJA Air 2s drone is similar and costs around $1,200 . Is
Ismail said: ‘Everyone was a good game. I didn’t give the police a hard time, and they didn’t give me a hard time. All they had to do was check that I was doing what I said I was doing.
When he began filming after a day of photography across the city, Ismail said he was inspired to capture aerial footage for a personal travel video by Oculus and a fountain near the World Trade Center.
After the accident, he kept on questioning the police at that fountain for six hours.
“I realized a little while ago that the drone was a little too far behind in its circle – the circle was a little too big to clear all the buildings,” he told more than 3,000 followers on his Instagram.
‘I realized that a second ago it crashed sideways into the building that was the 7th World Trade Center building.’
He bragged that the incident was a “great New York story” – but he said the fine and the $1,200 drone damage meant it came with a high price.
He also said that the DJA drone’s operating system, which usually prohibits pilots from flying their drones in restricted areas, did not inform them that the area was off-limits.
Much of New York City is restricted to drone flying, according to the NYPD, due to the multitude of tall buildings in the city.
But Port Authority police issued a subpoena to Ismail only for violating city codes prohibiting personal drone use, an agency spokesman told AFP. New York Daily News.
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