Fox anchor Nancy Parker killed in plane crash while doing story about stunt pilot
- Colleagues and family mourn loss of 53-year-old mother of three
- She was doing a story on pilot Franklin Augustus, who also died in crash
The New Orleans community is mourning the loss of news anchor Nancy Parker, who died in a plane crash while working on a story about a stunt pilot.
Parker, who worked as a journalist for WVUE Fox 8 News for 27 years, was killed Friday alongside pilot Franklin Augustus, who was a member of a Louisiana group that honoured Tuskegee Airmen, the news station reported.
A fire broke out on board the aircraft shortly after it crashed near a field in East New Orleans, according the National Transportation Board of Safety.
“Today we mourn the loss of our long-time colleague and friend Nancy Parker,” the station said in a statement to WDSU.
“Details have not been released by authorities, but we can confirm she passed away in a plane crash while covering a story at the New Orleans Lakefront Airport.”
A Federal Aviation spokesperson said the plane involved was a 1983 Pitts S-2B aircraft and crashed about a half-mile south of the airport under unknown circumstances.