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Air Taxi Prototype Crash at Cotswold Airport

Fear of Landing

On the 9th of August 2023, a VX4 crashed at Cotswold Airport in Gloucestershire during a test flight over the runway. Once stable in ground effect, the pilot shut down EPU1 (left-side outboard) to simulate the performance in the case of an engine failure. Then the pilot carefully climbed to 30 feet above the runway.

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