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AIR

Products: evtol. Risk band: Elevated   RobotRisk index 17.1/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 95th percentile of 171 drones evtol companies.

Analyst brief

The record contains two entries spanning March 2024 to October 2025: an AIR ONE eVTOL prototype crash during a Florida test flight (severity 3) and an MQ-9 Reaper drone losing control-station contact and making an emergency landing in Poland (severity 2). The two entries span different program types, prototype eVTOL testing and a separate unmanned military aircraft incident, indicating the record aggregates distinct platforms rather than a single recurring failure mode. AIR's index of 17.2 places it at the 94.7th percentile within drones-evtol, elevated standing driven by two moderate-severity entries rather than a single high-severity event. Both entries are press-reported operational incidents with no fatality or recall entries.

Entries by year and severity

012024 S2: 11242025 S3: 1125
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Incident log (2 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S310/23
2025 · 12:11
crash FL, USAAIR ONE eVTOL prototype crashes during Florida test flight · 1 prototype aircraft Aerospace America
S203/17
2024 · 23:00 local, March 18
malfunction Mirosławiec, PolandUS MQ-9 Reaper drone loses control-station contact, makes emergency landing in Poland stripes.com

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