The final data point showed the airplane 200 feet above the water before it descended in a final steep 45-degree bank. The airplane’s Rockwell Collins engine control unit recorded the airplane’s altitudes first at 1,909 feet, then 600 feet, then down to 36 feet and finally 11 feet above the water. Halladay’s Icon A5 crashed in shallow water near New Port Ritchey, Florida, under near-perfect skies on November 7, 2017, after a short flight from a lakeside beach in Odessa. How many times, I thought, have I cautioned students against such stunts close to the ground or the water? What was he thinking, I wondered? ![]() ![]() The death last November of Roy Halladay, former MLB star pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays and later the Philadelphia Phillies and a multiple Cy Young award winner, seemed even more needless than many because of the low-altitude maneuvers he was performing just before the crash. ![]() As both a land and seaplane instructor most of my life, I take every aircraft accident personally, whether I knew the pilot or not.
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