ORLANDO, Fla. – The mother of the child injured when drones collided and fell into the crowd during a downtown Orlando holiday show has filed a lawsuit against the city of Orlando and several companies involved in the incident, court records show.

The boy, who was 7 years old at the time, was hit in the stomach by one of the drones and was taken to the hospital where he had to have emergency surgery after doctors told his family the drone shocked his heart, his mother Adriana Edgerton told News 6 in December 2024.

The incident happened on Dec. 21, 2024, during the first of two planned drone shows where 500 drones were to be flown in a “performance area” almost entirely over the waters of Lake Eola.

The second show was canceled by the city after the crash.

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Documents obtained by News 6 at the time revealed that the drones were supposed to fly above Lake Eola at a safe distance away from crowds.

In addition to the city of Orlando, the suit filed in the Circuit Court of the Ninth Judicial Circuit in Orange County names Sky Elements, LLC, Uvify, Inc., Uvify, Co. Ltd. and SPH Engineering, accusing each one of negligence in the incident.

The suit alleges the boy suffered “significant permanent injuries including past and future medical expenses, pain and suffering, disability, inconvenience, disfigurement, mental anguish, all other economic and non-economic damages.”

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It also states that Orlando officials should have known the show involved high-risk “aerial equipment” and that the drones could pose a risk to the public and that Sky Elements had a duty to ensure all drones were safe prior to the show, had the ability to prevent flyaways and make sure the crew could safely manage the fleet of drones.

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According to the suit, Uvify – the drone manufacturer – failed to design the drones in “such a manner that the Subject Drone would not suddenly and unexpectedly crash into” the boy.

SPH Engineering is the developer of the drone’s software.

The National Transportation Safety Board said preliminary conclusions were several of the drones were not receiving data up until five minutes before showtime.

When they did launch, they did not launch uniformly, causing some of them to collide with other drones and crash.

The suit seeks compensatory damages and demands a jury trial on “all issues.”

The read the entire lawsuit, see below: