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Air Taxi Prototype Crash at Cotswold Airport

Fear of Landing

Once stable in ground effect, the pilot shut down EPU1 (left-side outboard) to simulate the performance in the case of an engine failure. This led to EPU4 losing its tilting function; as a result the flight computer spooled it down, as designed for a tilt fault. This caused a loss of thrust from motors 4 and 7.

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