Former Baseball Player Roy Halladay Had Just Taken Delivery Of The Aircraft

A few more details are emerging about an accident Tuesday involving an Icon A5 airplane which fatally injured former Major League Baseball pitcher Roy Halladay in the Gulf of Mexico.

Halladay was the only person on board the aircraft, which was found inverted in shallow water in the Gulf off the coast of Florida's Pasco County. This is the second accident involving the Icon A5 this year in which the occupants were fatally injured.

CNN reports that an airworthiness certificate for Halladay's airplane was issued on Monday, according to FAA records. The Pasco County Sheriff's office said there was no distress call from Halladay prior to the accident.

Icon released a statement saying that it "will do everything it can to support the accident investigation going forward and we will comment further when more information is available."

NBC news reports that Halladay's wife had tried to convince her husband not to purchase the airplane. Last month, Icon had posted a video of Halladay and his wife Brandy discussing the purchase in which she said she did not have the comfort level around small airplanes that Roy did.

The pitcher said he had to wait until after he retired to obtain his pilot certificate. He said it was one of the first things he did after officially retiring from baseball.

Halladay's father had been a corporate pilot, and Halladay had always wanted to learn to fly, according to NBC news. In 2015, he had posted a photo of himself and his father on Twitter of "My favorite copilot (my dad) and I in front of my Cessna Caravan on a recent trip from Kansas."

The investigation is still in its preliminary stages, and no details about the condition of the aircraft have been released.

(Image from file)

FMI: Original CNN Report, Original NBC report