Only $389,000 for Icon A5
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- FastEddieB
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Re: Only $389,000 for Icon A5
CBS Evening News just reported no distress calls.
Re: Only $389,000 for Icon A5
Fake news.FastEddieB wrote:CBS Evening News just reported no distress calls.
Bill Ince
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Re: Only $389,000 for Icon A5
I'm confused - apparently there was an accident reported here yesterday? I see oblique references to it, following a post that was edited twice, with no mention of an accident still posted. So, I don't know the story. Somebody please fill me in.
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- FastEddieB
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Re: Only $389,000 for Icon A5
A famous retired baseball pitcher was killed yesterday in an ICON A5 accident off the coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico - it’s all over the news.
Representative account here:
https://sports.yahoo.com/plane-roy-hall ... 27786.html
I thought the “Fake News” comment was in poor taste, but fail to see it as “right-wing idiocy”.
It appears the CBS News account was correct, and the reports of distress calls were mistaken.
Way too tragic to turn into something political.
Representative account here:
https://sports.yahoo.com/plane-roy-hall ... 27786.html
I thought the “Fake News” comment was in poor taste, but fail to see it as “right-wing idiocy”.
It appears the CBS News account was correct, and the reports of distress calls were mistaken.
Way too tragic to turn into something political.
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Re: Only $389,000 for Icon A5
Two fatal crashes with barely 20 planes in service. Even if this recent incident is also ruled 'Pilot Error" by the NTSB, coupled with the ridiculous recent price increase, I strongly doubt the Icon A5 company will survive the fallout.
I hope I'm proven wrong, by all accounts it actually is a pretty sweet LSA.
I hope I'm proven wrong, by all accounts it actually is a pretty sweet LSA.
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet" - Abraham Lincoln
Re: Only $389,000 for Icon A5
I'm confused. I see no political reference other than yours. If this is based off of Eddie's post, I thought you were both from the same side of the isle. No offense to either of you if I was wrong on my notion.TimTaylor wrote:Never mind. Someone decided to turn a tragic event into right-wing idiocy.
So my question is why do you turn everything into something political, when it is not?
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Re: Only $389,000 for Icon A5
I had not considered that, other than the fact that I enjoy Neil Cavuto's FOX News show at 4P, and that I quoted Cavuto's comment.3Dreaming wrote:If this is based off of Eddie's post...
I assumed he was triggered by the "Fake news" jab.
Re: Only $389,000 for Icon A5
You never really know what triggers it. It could have been the "Fake news" comment, it could have been your quote.FastEddieB wrote:I had not considered that, other than the fact that I enjoy Neil Cavuto's FOX News show at 4P, and that I quoted Cavuto's comment.3Dreaming wrote:If this is based off of Eddie's post...
I assumed he was triggered by the "Fake news" jab.
Re: Only $389,000 for Icon A5
3Dreaming wrote: You never really know what triggers it. It could have been the "Fake news" comment, it could have been your quote.
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Athens, GA
Sport Pilot ASEL, LSRI
2007 Flight Design CTSW E-LSA
Re: Only $389,000 for Icon A5
BINGO!MrMorden wrote:3Dreaming wrote:You never really know what triggers it. It could have been the "Fake news" comment, it could have been your quote.
Bill Ince
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Re: Only $389,000 for Icon A5
I will like to see the NTSB report. I seem to remember, early on in the testing and development phase of the Icon A5, an incident of leakage and swamping caused by a "hard landing" on the water. It appears Roy Halladay's accident happened on the water also. Most unfortunate. Maybe this was something similar?
Re: Only $389,000 for Icon A5
Concur 100%.HAPPYDAN wrote:I will like to see the NTSB report.
The NTSB will thoroughly investigate and present the facts and analysis. Everything else is just speculation.
As you suggest, this airplane does have some history. Up to this point, I would say it has not been very impressive.HAPPYDAN wrote:I seem to remember, early on in the testing and development phase of the Icon A5, an incident of leakage and swamping caused by a "hard landing" on the water.
Bill Ince
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- FastEddieB
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Re: Only $389,000 for Icon A5
Video leading up to and immediately post-crash:
http://www.tmz.com/2017/11/08/roy-halla ... owboating/
http://www.tmz.com/2017/11/08/roy-halla ... owboating/
Re: Only $389,000 for Icon A5
That video kind of settles it , doesn't it ?
Even if it was an engine failure , being so low and without any margin of error still would count as a pilot error.
Even if it was an engine failure , being so low and without any margin of error still would count as a pilot error.
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Re: Only $389,000 for Icon A5
FastEddie, I have no problems with anything you posted.
Retired from flying.