Nasty incident, glad nobody was injured or worse in the derailment, and hope nobody has been affected by the fumes.
Not sure some of this flying would be permitted here. To quote direclty from the CAA’s Drone Code, ‘Emergency Incidents; You must keep out of the way and not fly in any way that could hamper the emergency services when they are responding to an emergency incident. If you’re out flying at or near to an emergency incident when it happens, you must safely and immediately stop flying unless the emergency services give you permission to continue’.
How would that work? In reality, I’m fairly sure the emergency services responding will have plenty to be getting on with without you bothering them, and I assume the permission would have to come from the senior officer in charge of the response. It might be worth offering your drone’s services as an SAR or observation tool, but they’ve probably got their own anyway.
Perhaps the rules are different in the Czech Republic, of course, and we don’t know that this footage was not taken legitimately by an authorised pilot or even by fire service personnel. What I’m saying is that amatuer pilots in the UK should not use this sort of footage as an example authorising behaviour that contravenes the Drone Code…
Or perhaps, like here, the emergency services deploy their own drones …
Dramatic drone footage from the scene, released by the Czech fire service
Have you ever considered reading what you’re responding to - before you respond?
Another fail.
To be fair, John, I skim-read more than I should and quite often miss these things too. In this case though, the Olomouc Firefighters logo in the corner of the video gave it away 
I commented that such footage is generally not permissible in the UK for amatuer pilots, gave what I believe to be solid advice not to fly in such situations, and quoted the CAA on the subject. I’ll put my hands up to missing that the footage had been issued by the Czech fire service, but that’s hardly a fail, is it?
this flying
But this flying would be 100% totally permissible here.
Really? That close to an airborne helicopter, and to emergency service equipment, vehicles, & personel using BA that restricts their peripheral vision on the ground? Have you informed the CAA of this so that they can amend their clear (and legally enforceable) instruction in their Drone Code? Which I quoted in order to be clear that I had not misread or understood it?
Clealy this pilot was authorised, and not an amatuer; my comments and advice were addressed to amatuer pilots in the UK who do not want a knock on their door…
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It was their Emergency Services.
Ours would be able to. Because they’d be working in coordination with the other services and they’d all know what each other are doing,.
@Pterodactyl Just ignore @TheJohnster he’s never flown a drone before so his opinion is mute anyways 
What is the offence under aviation law for flying near an emergency incident? How is emergency defined and what are the specified statutory distance boundaries?
CAP 722 should cover it, I guess. I have read that it has successfully been used to prosecute offenders using ANO 2016 article 241as it applies to all operating categories and stipulates flight safety and to …
…not fly close to or inside areas where an emergency response effort is ongoing unless they have permission to do so from the responsible …
Wowza
That was meant for johnster to answer!