It's not easy to perfect a car that can fly.
On Friday, the Aeromobil 3.0 prototype flying car was on a test flight in Slovakia when eyewitnesses say it went into a tailspin.
Its inventor and the man behind the controls, Stefan Klein, 54, parachuted out of the vehicle before it hit the ground, the Prague Post reports. Klein reportedly only sustained minor injuries.
A statement from AeroMobil offered that Klein "encountered an unexpected situation and activated the advanced ballistic parachute system in an altitude of approximately 300 meters (900 feet)."
One word that wasn't in the company's statement was "crash." Instead, AeroMobil said: "The system has proved itself fully functional and landed the entire vehicle without any injury to the pilot."
However, images published by Slovakia's Nitra show that the aerial vehicle looked rather damaged. The front end looks especially mangled.
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