A drone efficiency deliberate for the skies above Central Park on New Yr’s Eve has been canceled, the New York Street Runners introduced.
The scheduled Tuesday evening drone spectacle was canceled in response to a disastrous efficiency by operator Sky Components at a present in Florida the place a number of drones fell right into a crowd, with a 7-year-old boy being injured on Dec. 21.
Though the tristate space is now not beneath a high-level drought warning, New York Street Runners had deliberate to make use of drones to ring within the New Yr above Central Park as an alternative of conventional fireworks, which have been deemed hazardous amid the continued, lower-level drought watch.
Sky Components, a Texas-based drone firm, pulled out of a deliberate New Yr’s Eve drone present in Dallas following the Florida debacle.
As well as, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a brief ban on drones within the skies above New York Metropolis, Lengthy Island and Westchester County in response to hundreds of drone sightings reported in latest weeks.
Initially Revealed: December 27, 2024 at 8:40 PM EST
