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February 19, 2022

Joby Falters With Test Flight Accident

8-K Filing Reveals Crash During Remotely Piloted Test Flight

A much-hyped remotely piloted test of Joby's second demonstrator aircraft ended disappointingly, as the aircraft was involved in an accident of some kind. The company has been understandably mum on specifics while the NTSB quickly  announced their investigation into the cause. The incident was mentioned in the firm's terse 8-K documents, saying that "its remotely piloted, experimental prototype aircraft was involved in an accident during flight testing at our remote flight test base in California. There were no injuries." The company had gained no small measure of interest when it filed the request for radio-controlled, remotely piloted flights off the Californian coa

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