The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a WFSB employee who may have violated agency regulations when he flew a drone with a camera over the scene of a fatal car crash on February 1. The incident has brought Connecticut into a national debate about FAA policy over the use of drones for journalism. The FAA does not allow the commercial use of unmanned aircrafts and journalism falls into that category.
A police report does not accuse the person with the drone, who said he was not working that day, of breaking the rules. But the report does say that the presence of a drone at a crime scene for journalistic purposes violates FAA regulations. The person operating it told the officers that the drone was his personal property, but he feeds video back to WFSB as part of his work for the station.
