NTSB Confirms Propeller Failure In 2022 Joby eVTOL Crash

Graham Warwick February 12, 2024

An anomalous tilt mechanism may have caused the propeller blade failure that brought down Joby’s eVTOL in 2022.

Credit: Joby Aviation
A cascading loss of propellers resulting from a blade failure caused by an anomalous propeller tilt mechanism was the likely cause of the February 2022 crash of a Joby S4 electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft during a remotely piloted test flight, the National Transportation Safety...
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