This flying car literally came crashing down to Earth

The flying car did not have a good weekend.

Slovakia-based AeroMobil was performing a test flight with one of its prototype flying cars on Friday, when it encountered what the company called an "unexpected situation" — and crash-landed

The pilot, co-founder Stefan Klein, was uninjured; he was sent to a hospital as a precaution. The car's parachute system apparently worked, not only ensuring the health of the pilot but also the craft itself, which the company says only suffered "partial damage."

In a statement, AeroMobil would only call the crash an "emergency landing." It also said the data from the flight would be analyzed and used to improve the prototype Read more...