While the National Transportation Safety Board does not normally determine a probable cause for an aircraft accident for months, or sometimes years after an event, the preliminary report the Board ...

Icon Aircraft has finished designing and testing the angle-of-attack indication system in the Icon A5 light sport amphibian and created an informative video showing just how the device works (view it ...

The National Transportation Safety Board released its final report today on the fatal May crash of an Icon A5 plane on the banks of California’s Lake Berryessa. The federal agency ruled that the ...

When it comes to piloting a plane, I have zero experience. In fact, I’ve never even considered attempting it. Nevertheless, as we swoop over Florida’s Tampa Bay on a gorgeous November morning, I ...

We test flew the Icon A5, a sporty plane that lets adrenaline junkies veer along mountain ranges and speed over crystal clear lakes. Sometimes a guy just needs his own plane to get where he wants to ...

About 20 minutes into my test flight aboard the Icon A5, the cockpit alarm started blaring. The angle-of-attack (AoA) display in front of me, an ingeniously designed gauge that seemed so delightful ...

"It is likely that the pilot mistakenly thought the canyon he entered was a different canyon that led to the larger, open portion of the lake," the NTSB wrote. The accident is tragic and Icon mourns ...