An employee of the capital’s construction department frightened residents of a residential district of Yekaterinburg by launching a drone over the road. In this respect informs URA.ru.
A drone flying over a road being repaired in Yekaterinburg was reported to law enforcement by vigilant citizens fearing a quadrocopter.
Police officers who came looking found a man using a quadcopter. Seeing the law enforcement officers who violated the ban on drone flights in the city, he tried to escape by car, but was detained where he got stuck in a traffic jam.
The person who launched the drone turned out to be an employee of the Yekaterinburg Capital Construction Department, who announced that he filmed the street and the road under construction, the equipment was seized and sent to the city Federal Air Transport Agency for inspection. The Ministry of Interior is investigating the circumstances of the incident.
Previously in Belarus arrested Two men trying to launch a drone over Lithuania.