89 drones hit the water simultaneously: the RF failure mode every event tech operator should model for

Eighty-nine aircraft dropped out of formation simultaneously and hit the water. Not one or two going rogue — the entire affected subset of the fleet triggered failsafe landing at the same moment. If you've ever worked on distributed systems under a shared degraded resource, you already recognise this failure pattern. According to a 9News report, drone operator SKYMAGIC confirmed the cause: "an unforeseen change in the radio frequency (RF) environment occurring after take-off." That RF anomaly d...