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Both men declined to comment on the Impala's track record, but Mr Emmenis said: "It was kept in immaculate condition and when the test flight school took it, they stripped it down and checked for any faults. So there was nothing wrong with it, it was absolutely perfect."

They were taking part in the first crewed test flight of the Starliner spacecraft, developed by aerospace company Boeing.

A SpaceX launch test went awry on Thursday when the company’s Starship dramatically exploded on the craft’s eighth test flight.

It was the second failure in a row for the company, following a Starship explosion in January during the probe’s seventh test flight.

When an aircraft with the technology on board carried out a test flight in May 2024, the then science minister Andrew Griffith described it as "further proof of the UK as one of the world leaders on quantum".