That plane (Icon A5) is quickly shaping up to the the supersport of the air.
Is Icon any more responsible for their plane than Honda is for liter bikes or Chevy making Corvettes?
Very sad, indeed.
I'll take up a good old-fashioned, super-reliable Cessna 182 over an A5 any day.
Fly one of those the same way Halliday appeared to be flying his Icon and you'll end up just as dead.
For the pilots on the board, assuming that he hadn't crashed aren't there license implications for flying like that? IIRC, a student out of Buttonville got a regulatory beat down for buzzing his girlfriends house in Markham a few years ago. Halliday was out over the gulf, so maybe it's a free for all out there?
When I got my license there were designated areas for stunt practice and it is illegal to stunt over populated areas. We went to the stunt areas to practice spins and stalls.
Fly one of those the same way Halliday appeared to be flying his Icon and you'll end up just as dead.
But again, someone famous has to die for any results to come of it (if there will be, other then everyone now knowing the aircraft type). If it was Joe Blow it wouldn't be a big deal.