Flying Cars? A Flying Car Crashes In Canada Near A School

Flying cars? Have we now moved technological advances to the level of Flying Cars?

There are fender benders, sideswipes and rear-end accidents, but police in Canada are investigating their first-ever case of a car falling from the sky, according to the DailyMailOnline.

According to the report, two people were injured after an experimental flying car crashed into a tree. The aircraft, or vehicle clipped a fence  on Friday morning near a school in Vernon, British Columbia.

The flying car is a combination of a plane engine, propeller and parasail attached to a dune buggy.

Police spokesperson Gord Molendyk said there are indications the aircraft was coming into land, said the DailyMail.

'It looked like it was on its approach,' Molendyk said. 'There was motor sound and people looked up and it got into trouble and came through the fence and into the trees here.'

The pilot Ray Siebring and his passenger had to be pulled from the tree. They suffered minor injuries and were taken to hospital.

No one was hurt on the ground, although children from the school were preparing on the nearby grounds for a track and field day.

'It seemed there was an anomaly on our approach to landing," Ray Siebring told The Canadian Press from the crash site.

'It was just a sharp left turn that turned into a spiral, so the spiral took at least three rotations.'

As the Maverick - which looks like a dune buggy with a large propeller on its rear - started losing altitude, Siebring realized there was a semi-populated area that included a school directly in his path.

'We were able to stop the rotation, but our altitude was critically low. I gave full power to dampen the forced landing and directed the aircraft ... away from the school and into some woods.'

Dale Olsen, a teacher at the nearby Fulton Secondary School, and said it was the talk of the morning.

'A lot of the kids saw it around school this morning,' he said. 'They said it looked like it stalled, the parachute started crumpling up and they couldn't get it going again.'

The Maverick which costs at least $94,000 can travel at speeds up to 100 mph and up to 40 mph in the air.

The car uses a 100-metre runway to take off and flies under a parasail, but it also needs a 100-metre runway to make a safe landing, the DailyMail said.