{"id":9655,"date":"2026-05-26T13:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/?p=9655"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:21:15","slug":"drones-crash-into-water-after-sydney-light-show-malfunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/?p=9655&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Drones Crash into Water After Sydney Light Show Malfunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 90 drones plunged into the waters of Sydney&#8217;s Darling Harbour on Monday night during a scheduled light festival display. Organizers of Vivid Sydney, an annual three-week festival renowned for its large light installations, attributed the malfunction to <strong>&#8220;unforeseen technical difficulties.&#8221;<\/strong> Consequently, two subsequent aerial drone displays have been cancelled. A spokesperson for Vivid Sydney issued an apology for the <strong>&#8220;disappointment and inconvenience caused to attendees,&#8221;<\/strong> stating that the drone operators halted the show <strong>&#8220;in line with standard safety protocols.&#8221;<\/strong> #SydneyDrones #VividSydney #DroneCrash #DarlingHarbour #LightFestival #TechnicalMalfunction #DroneShow #SydneyEvents #SafetyProtocols #EventCancellation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 90 drones plunged into the waters of Sydney&#8217;s Darling Harbour on Monday night during a scheduled light festival display. Organizers of Vivid Sydney, an annual three-week festival renowned for its large light installations, attributed the malfunction to &#8220;unforeseen technical difficulties.&#8221; Consequently, two subsequent aerial drone displays have been cancelled. A spokesperson for Vivid Sydney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}