Schiebel
Robot types: VTOL drone, Military drone. Risk band: Low RobotRisk index 14.7/100 (severity- and time-weighted incidents) · ranked 22 of 26 among Drones / eVTOL companies with incidents (550 tracked).
Analyst brief
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 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.
Risk index
Products and robot types
Industries: Drones / eVTOL (primary), Defense / space · Sectors: Airlines and Aviation, Armed Forces, Maritime Transportation
Risk is scored per product and robot type: each incident is attributed to the product it names, or to the company's matching robot type.
| Robot type | Share of company risk | Rank within type |
|---|---|---|
| VTOL drone | 100% | 2 of 2 |
| Product | Robot type | Status | Incidents | Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camcopter S-100 | VTOL drone | shipping | 1 | 14.7 |
Incident timeline
Comparisons over time
Per-type breakdown
| Incident type | Unique incidents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| fatality | 1 | 100% |
Unique incident list
1 unique incident on file for this company.
| Sev | Date | Type | Location | Incident | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S5 | ~Dec 2016 | fatality | South Korea | Schiebel S-100 crash kills engineer in South Korea · 1 fatality | suasnews.com |
S5 ~Dec 2016 · fatality · Schiebel S-100 crash kills engineer in South Korea
| Sev | Date | Supporting source row | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| S5 | ~Dec 2016 | Schiebel S-100 crash kills engineer in South Korea | suasnews.com |
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