Icon A5 Designer Killed. Another A5 crashed in April making a hard landing in the water off Key Largo Florida injuring the pilot and his passenger. Halladay the 40-year-old former Blue Jays and Phillies pitcher had been the proud owner for less than a month of his ICON A5 and was among the first to fly it with only about 20 in existence.
Its designer died when his A5 crashed. Icon Chief Test Pilot Killed in A5 Crash. The NTSB investigation of that first fatal.
The Icon A5 sport plane.
The first production aircraft made its first flight on July 7 2014 and made its public debut at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh on July 27 2014. Pilots are raising questions about the Icon A5 plane after retired MLB all star Roy Halladays death. The NTSB investigation of that first fatal. The pilot told investigators the plane descended faster than he expected.
