Products: vtol-drone, military-drone. Risk band: Low RobotRisk index 9.0/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 91th percentile of 171 drones evtol companies.
Schiebel's record holds one entry: the December 2016 crash of an S-100 unmanned aerial system that killed an engineer in South Korea, classified as a fatality at severity 5, the maximum severity tier. The index of 9.1 and percentile of 91.2 place the company high within the drones/eVTOL category, consistent with a single fatal event carrying substantial weight against category peers. The record is a single catastrophic incident involving an unmanned platform rather than a pattern of recurring failures. No regulatory or press-volume trend can be inferred beyond this one fatality.
| Sev | Date | Type | Location | Incident | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S5 | 12/2016 | fatality | South Korea | Schiebel S-100 crash kills engineer in South Korea · 1 fatality | suasnews.com |