At least 5 shows canceled after drones fell from the sky at Orlando holiday event
At least 5 shows canceled after drones fell from the sky at Orlando holiday event
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At least five drone shows have been canceled, or have paused the use of the systems, after several drones struck a crowd at a holiday show in Orlando on December 21.
Universal Orlando, Orlando World Center Marriott, the cities of Dallas and Austin, Texas, and a New Year’s Eve event in New York City’s Central Park have either canceled drone shows or the drone components of larger holiday events following the incident.
It is unclear which companies were under contract to produce the shows in each location.
Footage captured on December 21shows drones colliding with each other before falling from the sky during a holiday show at Lake Eola Park. Some drones fell into the lake, some onto the ground and some into areas where a crowd was watching.
Among them was a 7-year-old boy who was struck in his chest by one of the drones. He underwent emergency heart surgery, according to a GoFundMe campaign posted by his family, who spent Christmas in the hospital as he recovered. CNN has reached out to his family for an update on his condition.
The videoshowed several red and green drones crashing into one another before hitting the ground, in what the city described as “technical difficulties,” following the incident.
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Flying drones over crowds of people is an FAA violation. They were fucking up before the fuckup even happened. The lawsuits should be swift.
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What a lot of people need to remember about these things, is that even the mid-sized drones have enough rotor energy to decapitate people.
They're basically blades whorling about at high speed. Worse is if something collides and causes the cheap-ass rotor to break off, that's a flying dagger.
this is not something you can "fix", it's an inherent necessity. the more drones in the sky, the greater the risk something gets overlooked... and they should absolutely not be flying where they can fall into people. if that's happening, walk away, because the pilots are probably over looking other incredibly basic safety protocols too.
And with hundreds of drones up at a time, the amount of time a person has inspecting any one drone is significantly reduced.
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Here, at least, flying above people is illegal. Surely the operators in this case will be at least losing their licence, if not facing charges.
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Pretty sure the rules with the FAA make that clear. If they have a permit for sUAVs… they’ll probably get that tweeted.
I’m not sure that would stop them. But eh. We can hope.
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I saw a video (no gore) about a dude flying an RC Helicopter and ended up decapitated in front of family. Horrific.
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I'm wondering if someone in the crowd was interfering with the signal or these were point failures on individual drones
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I've only ever seen one drone show, during which a few drones started misbehaving, crashed into each other and then into the lake. So from my sample size of one, drone shows are error prone.
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That sounds like a really low-value way of committing terrorism, while simultaneously coordinating across 3 cities. More likely, all drone shows outsource their collision avoidance software to like 2 companies and one decided that they won't waste their money on quality control.
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I hear it’s always a smart idea to perform drone airshows right above big groups of people.
I hope those pigs get sued.
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Flying aircraft over groups of people.
You'd think that after Ramstein people would have learned, baaaad idea, that sort of thing.
I guess some people just never learn or think about the obvious
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Ohhh. The airbase, not the band.
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Also the band if you've watched any of the videos coming out of Ukraine.
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Read the title thinking - a few drones fall and suddenly there's nothing on TV.
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Why not have one drone with a string of lights hanging off of it? Or small enough drones (under the faa weight limit) that falling drones won't hurt you?
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Because the string of lights will whip around in the wash of the propellers and the small drones won't have enough batteries or margin for lights to make it interesting.
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