Amphibious light plane "ICON A5" crashed, two people including the developer died

Amphibious light aircraft that was developed based on the concept of "popularization of aircraft" and has also begun salesICON A5"Crashed during the test flight, accidents occurred that two people died. Both of the pilots were employees of ICON Aircraft and one of them knows that it was the principal designer of ICON A5.

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The crash accident of ICON A5 occurred in Lake Berieta located in California, USA. The deaths of the two ICON Aircraft employees have been confirmed on site, but the cause of the crash of ICON A5 has not been announced.

ICON A5 was first announced in 2014 and sales began in 2016. ICON A5 is a two-seater light aircraft and is an amphibious aircraft that can be driven as it is to the water. Details of the aircraft and the appearance of actually riding can be seen from the following article.

"Flying Flying Sports Car" Delivery of the "ICON A5" double-seater light plane to be launched in 2016 - GIGAZINE


Although ICON Aircraft aimed at spreading small aircraft under the concept of "aircraft to the masses", it is possible that future developments will be affected by the fact that major developers of the main machine died in a test flight It is seen. Kang Hawkins, CEO of ICON Aircraft, commented on a message to the customer who wrote about the accident "I feel no more sadness about the fact that two employees died in the test of ICON A 5" I will.