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Volocopter

Products: evtol, air-taxi. Risk band: Elevated   RobotRisk index 15.2/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 93th percentile of 171 drones evtol companies.

Analyst brief

The record contains one entry: a bankruptcy/insolvency filing dated December 2024, classified as a shutdown event with severity 3. This is a financial/corporate-status entry rather than an operational malfunction or safety incident. The 93.5th percentile ranking places Volocopter in the elevated band within drones-evtol, driven by this single corporate failure event rather than an incident pattern.

Entries by year and severity

012024 S3: 1124
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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S312/26
2024
shutdown Bruchsal, GermanyVolocopter files for bankruptcy/insolvency DW.com

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