Mishap at holiday drone show in Orlando

Several of the drones collided and fell into the crowd of spectators at the Florida-based event, injuring at least one person.

[StirFryChicken]

Lawsuits are going to fly like crazy. Very sad that the 7 year old was hurt and had a serious surgery just before the holidays :(

[yaboiph]

What's wild is this company holds a few Guinness Records and is used for many official drone shows. I've attended two of their successful drone shows at a music festival. They just featured a tribute during a jersey retiring for NFL Seahawks game on their youtube page. Wow this incident can easily be miscommunication via gps connection as devices have been having unknown interferences. Other factors could include wind gusts, bad blades, freezing temperatures. It's just sad a kid was injured at such a celebratory event.

[Waiyan.N]

Drones are pretty linear even when they break. This is sketchy

[wolfthorn]

The alien plasmoids got very excited and tried to join in.

[Orion]

At 0:17 you said the FAA is investigating, and at 1:05 you said it’s unclear if they’ll go back and investigate….. do better news. Do better.

[EricLing]

How about don't fly those over spectators? I think even fireworks, the proper ones anyways, are usually fired over unoccupied spaces.

[fluxmuldar]

Florida saw China's drone shows and went "hold my beer".

[silentmajority]

but we are expected to believe the car sized drones are operated by people like this?

[soundbeast]

I predict, the distance of the crowd was part of what got the kid hurt. In our drone show last night for a different company we also had technical difficulties, coincidentally, also on the 21st, but instead of rushing into it, we got permission to come back the next day to run the performance of 1000 drones, which then went successfully...we had several ground crew and asked the audience to stay on the opposite side of the building from where the drones were launching. This particular scene looks like the very beginning of the show when the grid lifts up. It's VITAL that a double or triple verification before the launch to be sure props are good, batteries, landing gear and everything is not broken. These shows travel. It is quite possible that they rushed the set up and then had problems, but then launched anyways. We actually talked about launching, but common sense said postpone it a day so all technical difficulties can be resolved. Our Pilot in Command is VERY well educated in flight. Half ready is NOT good enough. Would you jump out of a plane with half a parachute? Me either! I was a ground crew member of a successful mission of 1000. I learned a lot. There are many things to consider before launching. Before our show, there were many people wanting to be close so they could see the show, but what they don't realize is these shows are really high up, so you will be able to see them for a couple miles...but if nobody is controlling the crowd, or if the client decides to put the crowd close, it's kind of something to be considered too. It appears that they are only separated by a pond...there is no real safety padding boundary so when the drones started in a different direction, there is nothing to stop them. They are on a program so they will not stop until they hit the ground. Wouldn't hurt for them to have an Auto-off program if they turn upside-down like DJI does. If DJI drones flip over or hit something, they shut off and props stop spinning.

[disneylandx]

This is the same company that was on Americas Got Talent.

[HancockFilmProductions]

I fly one single drone over people in downtown and security goes crazy, but it’s ok to pay a vendor to fly hundreds of drones via AI over people?

[extremeLEGEND]

Prayers for the boy, but on top of failsafes, now there needs to be area limits just like fireworks.

[nillyk]

In South Korea they do these kind of shows constantly and have never had such accidents.
Yikes

[reneestuart-wy]

That may be why people don't want car sized drones over their homes. I hope that kid that got hit will be okay.

[BourneJoker]

One or two might have failed but that was something else...

[tiatokkesdal]

Just really weird that they malfunctioned. Ive never seen this happen before. Coincidentally, while the world is sighting something weird in our skies like "drone and orb" activity. Videos where it litterally appeared that the orbs were shutting down multiple drones. Lets also not forget that a few pilots have also made the claim that their control panels malfunctioned while in the presence of them.

[callepantera]

But why was anyone standing under the drones? It just does not make sense.

[bashfulsr]

Can’t help but think they were hacked.

[nameshopi]

What caused the mishap at the holiday drone show in Orlando, and how are organizers addressing the incident to ensure safety and prevent future issues?

[TheFerrariGuy]

It’s extremely easy to buy an EMP blaster and send down any sort of drone that you want just by buying some online parts so how couldn’t this have been just some foreign entity wanting to disrupt show shows nationally?