S3 · 04/26
2025 · ~15:00 ·
Lift Aircraft · Osaka, Japan
| Company | Lift Aircraft |
| Category | drones evtol |
| Type | malfunction |
| Date | 04/26 2025 |
| Time of day | ~15:00 |
| Location | Osaka, Japan |
| Severity | S3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault) |
| Scale | - |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | Aviation International News |
Lift Aircraft's Hexa single-seat eVTOL suffered a part/mechanical failure mid-flight during demo operations at the Osaka World Expo in Japan; flying-car demo flights were halted as a result. No casualties reported.
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