They can call it what they will. In my world that is not flying.
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For me the survival rate of pilots in that thing is the resulting Venn diagram between the average human IQ and the average manufacturing quality.
Pretty abysmal.
Like- now that I am an adult, the Back to the Future 2 part with all the flying cars?!
JFC, a nightmare. I would build a bunker and never leave.
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The state of some of the driving that I see on the roads today …then add in personal flying transportation drone things …
watching 17 year olds putting golf gti’s through farmers hedges and in ditches… then giving them one of them flying things 
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To pilot a flying machine like that there should be minimum prerequisites.
1- Teetotal when buying one- and as extra safety measure, blood check for 0% alcohol in the bloodstream.
2- Going through a rigorous testing for anger issues. Like- really making sure the person flying is literally Ghandi.
3- Some ethics classes on top wouldn’t hurt as well. You know being mindful of others - not just being an insufferable self-centered billionaire b*tch.
4- Yearly tests.
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I’m worried about the people walking around that thing. It looks like a blender on steroids. I hate to poo-poo innovation…but that thing is just so dangerous looking to all involved. At the very least, I would want a pretty robust BRS system.
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Kiss an extremity goodbye if one of those props separate from its hub.
Wheels
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I can’t believe they didn’t even put guards around the props 
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And here was me thinking that there can’t be anything worse than flying in a helipcopter…
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If the Jetson One looks crazy, how about this one?
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This one is a head scratcher…
TLDR. But … how? Control faults due to FOD in the tail are virtually impossible in that design. AP servos in GA planes are very weak.
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Yeah…
There was another aircraft airborne trying to help over the radio and they had the mishap pilot try shutting everything off. Doesn’t seem like it was a physical jam either as they could see the elevator moving…
Could have been a mechanical jam of the yoke somewhere, I want to say under the floor but I’ve no clue how this aircraft is rigged, probably somewhere with a chain behind the panel and some quadrants.
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Hard to tell with so little info, off course, but the people in the other aircraft evidently mentioned the elevator moving from neutral to pitch up and that caused the Cessna to go out of control. I wonder if the servos can move the flight controls without moving the yoke…? Probably not without a wire or clutch failure?
The engine variable geometry inlet guide vanes…in both engines…simultaneously…?
Looks more like corrosion in the whole HPC system, the VSV’s having a higher resistence due to that which lead to decrease in closure at idle.
Looks like both engines stalled when the pilots asked for power coming from idle. Could be due to corrosion. GE issued a SB to investigate this fleet wide and figure out what sort of impact it might have. Honestly this once again is a good argument to have engines on a dual engine aircraft be 50% of the expected CSLO/CSN so that you stagger engine changes and won’t end up with two engines hanging on for their life(the engines are 1 SN apart so I presume MFG date is close together).
At page 26 you can clearly see the VSV rings on the HPC casing, if the bushing wear out it can cause significant friction in the system. Apparently it has been linked to hung starts as well but GE is still investigating this at time of writing.
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That link is not gonna link like that, friendly ghost 
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Fair enough!
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Closed circuit rebreathers that use O2 sensors for deep diving, usually mandate an offset sensor replacement schedule for this reason. I don’t remember the math, but with 3 sensors, it got down into the tenths of % dual failures, and well below that for a full triple failure.