There are few things more visually attractive than a drone show. These types of demonstrations are increasingly common, either in television programs, at larger events or at fairs. And they always have a great impact on viewers. Only sometimes the impact is not the desired one.
Something like this happened in Australia this week.
Ready to witness something unique, the spectators present around Darling Harbor in Sydney certainly experienced something unique. Because, suddenly, almost 90 drones went down in full show.
The scare was enormous, because the dozens of drones with their lights on left some directly into the water; to the cement of the port othersfalling in some cases very close to people who were witnessing one of the great shows of the Vivid Sydney festival.
As, the organizers explained that the failure was due to “unforeseen technical difficulties“, which led them to cancel their next performances before clearly clarifying what happened.
After the first few hours, the company responsible for the drone event, the British company Skymagic, announced that the Massive failure was due to a change in radio frequency which affected a significant part of the up to 1,000 drones that were going to participate in an exhibition scheduled to last 12 minutes.
Despite the impact of the dozens of defective devices, the company itself wanted to clarify that none of the drones went out of safety limitshence there was no real risk for attendeesbeyond the morrocotudo scare they got.
A port worker narrated the moment of the collision of the almost 90 drones. In a statement to the Australian media ABCexplained that “the noise that could be heard crashing against the dock was considerable even from a distance of 10, 15 or 20 meters“. “You could hear them colliding and crashing into the concrete of the marina.“added this worker.
