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https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news...l-plane-crash/


ICON crash in Tennessee. Pilot is not a member of IOPA. To make it sink, I guess he hit water so hard he cracked hull or hit a partially submerged object landing.

pilot ok

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Glad to hear the pilot is ok!

I am guessing it is N459B (serial #70)
https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N459BA

At least two other A5 have sunk after hard water landing. As you said, it must be a hard hit!

6 N467BA ICON AIRCRAFT INC / Hard water landing, Sanibel Island, FL
10 N672BA ICON AIRCRAFT INC / Hard water landing, Biscayne Bay, FL

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Several more have sunk like that such as ASN37. ASN16 nearly sunk as well helping ASN6 that did. You just have to breach the sea wings on a hard water landing and its game over. The aircraft that had the blue tooth speaker go through the prop nearly sunk too. It takes quite a bit of provocation but when you break the sea wings it will sink fast.

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I was performing proficiency water landings in the Tennessee River last Saturday on Watts Bar Lake and there were dozens of submerged logs in the water. I had to do careful downwind sighting runs for each landing to see and avoid objects. Not a good time to land on the Tennessee river.

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I was performing proficiency water landings in the Tennessee River last Saturday on Watts Bar Lake and there were dozens of submerged logs in the water. I had to do careful downwind sighting runs for each landing to see and avoid objects. Not a good time to land on the Tennessee river.

Yep, that’s why the low inspection pass is so important. Amazing the FAA goes after folks for it claiming it’s showboating

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I believe this was a gear-down landing. I don’t have a public source for this info.

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Interesting. The NTSB from prior incidences of gear down in water, flying a normal landing profile, didn't crack their hull. Wonder if he also had a high sink rate like the guy in Florida. Those hulls seem pretty strong. Hmmm

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One gear down in water in Canada split the airplane in half but the water was rough. Gear down in water can vary from nothing to full flip over. Most are moderate damage to the heat exchangers and the engine taking a big gulp of water. The worst injury from a gear down in water was cracked rib to a late 70's gentleman.

This particular accident in Tennessee has hit the NTSB database so we should get some info. The NTSB id ERA25LA135

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No record found on NTSB website.

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Hmmm, you’d figure something by now.

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its coming...