{"id":263393,"date":"2018-06-06T08:59:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T06:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=263393"},"modified":"2018-06-06T09:00:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T07:00:54","slug":"prototype-electric-plane-grounded-after-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/263393-prototype-electric-plane-grounded-after-fatal-crash.html","title":{"rendered":"Prototype electric plane grounded after fatal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An experimental electric plane powered by Siemens experienced a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.siemens.com\/press\/en\/feature\/2015\/corporate\/2015-03-electromotor.php#event-toc-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fatal crash<\/a><\/strong> in Hungary last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Magnus eFusion prototype aircraft crashed &#8211; killing both pilots.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft is powered by an electric motor and features multiple lithium-ion batteries placed at the front of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the accident is unknown, with Siemens stating it is working closely with authorities to clarify why the plane went down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can confirm that an accident happened to an experimental airplane featuring our electric propulsion unit,&#8221; Siemens said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, please do understand that we cannot comment on eventual causes or any circumstances at this point of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Siemens has expressed its condolences to the families of the pilots and grounded the aircraft until the cause can be determined.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a precautionary measure, we decided to ground the Magnus eFusion aircraft fleet until we know the cause of this tragic accident,&#8221; said Siemens.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/256613-stratolaunch-aircraft-set-to-launch-this-year.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Stratolaunch aircraft set to launch this year<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An experimental electric plane powered by Siemens experienced a fatal crash in Hungary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":263397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[51425,51423,2442],"class_list":["post-263393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-electric-plane","tag-magnus-efusion","tag-siemens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263421,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263393\/revisions\/263421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}