Vertical Aerospace
Robot types: eVTOL, Air taxi. Risk band: Elevated RobotRisk index 32.2/100 (severity- and time-weighted incidents) · ranked 12 of 26 among Drones / eVTOL companies with incidents (550 tracked).
Analyst brief
The record consists of one entry: the VX4 prototype eVTOL aircraft crashed during an uncrewed flight test in August 2023, coded at severity 4, the highest severity level in this dataset. The uncrewed designation limits the event to a hardware-loss classification rather than a casualty incident. The record is a single press-reported flight-test event, not a pattern of recurring failures.
Risk index
Products and robot types
Industries: Drones / eVTOL · Sectors: Airlines and Aviation
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 |
|---|---|---|
| eVTOL | 100% | 2 of 8 |
Incident timeline
Comparisons over time
Per-type breakdown
| Incident type | Unique incidents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| crash | 1 | 100% |
Unique incident list
1 unique incident on file for this company.
| Sev | Date | Type | Location | Incident | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S4 | 09 Aug 2023 | crash | Kemble Airfield, Gloucestershire, UK | Vertical Aerospace VX4 prototype crashes during uncrewed flight test | AeroTime / FlightGlobal |
S4 09 Aug 2023 · crash · Vertical Aerospace VX4 prototype crashes during uncrewed flight test
| Sev | Date | Supporting source row | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| S4 | 09 Aug 2023 | Vertical Aerospace VX4 prototype crashes during uncrewed flight test | AeroTime / FlightGlobal |
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