New Orleans journalist and stunt pilot killed in New Orleans East plane crash

FOX8 journalist Nancy Parker, 53, and celebrated stunt pilot Franklin Augustus, 69, were the only people on board the aircraft when it came down in a field near New Orleans Lakefront Airport, according Mayor LaToya Cantrell. Lynn Lunsford, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson, told BuzzFeed News in an email that the "Pitts S-2B aircraft crashed under unknown circumstances, approximately one-half mile south" of the airport. (www.nola.com) More...