Flying cars crash to others at the air show in China

Two flying cars crashed during a rehearsal for an air show in China which was to be a showcase for technology.

The Xpeng Aeroht vehicles collided in the air, with a fire during landing, the company said in a statement in Reuters.

The company said that people at the scene were safe, but CNN reported that a person had been injured in the accident, citing an anonymous company employee.

Rehearsals on Tuesday was for the Changchun Air Show, which should start later this week in northeast China.

BBC News contacted Xpeng to comment.

Images on the Chinese social media site Weibo seemed to show a fiery vehicle on the ground which was followed by the firefighters.

A vehicle “suffered fuselage damage and caught fire in landing,” Xpeng Aeroht said in a press release at CNN.

“All the staff at the scene is safe and local authorities have carried out emergency measures on the spot in order,” he added.

Electric flying cars take off and land vertically, and the company hopes to sell them for about $ 300,000 (£ 220,000) each.

In January, Xpeng said it had around 3,000 orders for the vehicle.

The Chinese company is one of the largest manufacturers of electric vehicles (electric vehicles) in the world, which is recently developing in Europe.

Flying cars are made by its subsidiary, Aeroht.

There are still considerable obstacles for this transport in terms of infrastructure, regulation and acceptance of the public.

However, some analysts say that China is trying to reproduce the success it has experienced with electric vehicles, by pushing the early adoption of a technology that will ultimately be widely used.

He said he wanted to direct the world in “Low altitude economy”.

Last year, a pioneering European flying car company was bought by a Chinese company.