Normally I wouldn't take the time to get into this, but what the @nypost and @californiapost published here is utter fiction. And defamatory fake news does a disservice to everyone involved. “Mass evacuation.” “Futuristic jet sparks dangerous chain reaction.” Totally false. Zero checking of these false statements before publication; sure feels like a hit piece designed for clicks. Here is the boring reality: On Monday, a test pack briefly caught fire in a controlled environment at one of our lab facilities in the Bay Area. This happened during advanced R&D testing on a next-gen battery pack for a future pipeline program—not our Midnight air taxi. Our team quickly extinguished it with the help of local fire, root caused the issue, and were back at it the next day building and testing the future of aerospace technology. If the media spent half as much energy covering American engineering breakthroughs as they do trying to manufacture panic we’d be much better off as a country.