Icon A5 Accident On Takeoff. On July 30 2019 Flying published an article regarding a takeoff accident in that injured the two passengers noting This is the fifth accident or. Yet there have already been two fatal crashes the second one taking the life of baseball player Roy Halladay.
And the airplane meets FAR 23 spin-resistant standards for certified aircraft. Had been employed at ICON since 2007 and was the first to test the Icon A5 in 2014. There are less than two dozen ICON A5 aircraft flying.
Jon Karkow 55 took the Icon A5 from the first flight of the first prototype in July 2008 through flying the first production aircraft ESN-1 in 2014 to deliveries of customer aircraft.
With two 100-horsepower Rotax 912 engines the 1680-pound AirCam has power to climb fantastically or to continue climbing effortlessly albeit somewhat slower with a single engine. On June 3 2020 about 1640 central daylight time an ICON A5 amphibian airplane N838BA was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near the Sky Harbor Airport DYT Duluth Minnesota. Yet there have already been two fatal crashes the second one taking the life of baseball player Roy Halladay. The Icon A5 is a heavy bird and has little useful load to mess with and the company pilot with 120 hours in type really should have been more attentive to that fact.
