Buyers can thus feel safe, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which recently certified the A5 in the light-sport category, can be satisfied with its decision. Icon founder and CEO Kirk Hawkins noted that this was the first incident like this to occur in 3,500 A5 flight hours and with more than 20 airplanes built to date. An avid pilot, he had been known to enjoy stunt maneuvers in the airplane, an Icon A5, the report said. The Icon A5 went down sometime before 9:30 a.m. near Pleasure Point on the south end of the lake, near Wragg Canyon, an FAA spokesperson said. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its final report on the May 8, 2017, accident in which ICON Aircraft employees Jon Karkow and Cagri Sever lost their lives. The Icon Aircraft A5 pilot operating handbook stated that the emergency procedure for a loss of control was to pull the handle for the complete aircraft parachute (CAP) system. Just days before his crash, he had flown under the Skyway Bridge, which has a ⦠As part of the After Cockpit Entry checklist, the pilot was to remove and stow the CAP system safety pin in case the system needed to be activated. For reasons not yet determined, the plane crashed into the side of a canyon in a cove on Lake Berryessa. Narrative: The pilot was conducting a sales demonstration flight with a pilot-rated passenger on board. On May 8, aeronautical engineer and chief test pilot Jon Karkow was piloting the two seat amphibious A5 with Iconâs new director of engineering, Cagri Sever on board as a passenger. This large lake is where Icon regularly tests its planes. A fisherman first reported the crash, which is the company's first fatal crash involving the A5. Chicago Executive Airport Executive Director Jamie Abbott said that the pilot survived the crash and was taken to Lutheran General Hospital last night. Twelve days before it fatally crashed in the Gulf of Mexico, an Icon A5 flew under the Sunshine Skyway Bridge south of Tampa. Before the crash, eye witnesses reported the pilot flying low to the waters and performing stunts to what seem like show boating (basically when a pilot is recklessly showing off). He reported that, when he started the takeoff run from a lake, three small wakes helped propel the airplane into the air. On November 7, 2017, Baseball hall of famer Roy Halladay crashed his brand new amphibian plane; an Icon A5 into the Gulf of Mexico. Just as ICON Aircraft was celebrating the delivery of its 100th airframe last week came news on Friday that an A5 had crashed during a takeoff attempt in Littlefield, Michigan. In an analysis of the accident, NTSB investigators note that Karkow, a commercial pilot, was performing a new employee familiarization flight with Sever, who had justâ¦