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FAA Investigates One of Its Own in Deadly Air Show Crash
June 24, 2013— -- The Federal Aviation Administration has launched an investigation of one of its own after an agency budget analyst who moonlighted as a wing-walker died in a fiery crash during a weekend air show in Ohio.
Jane Wicker, 44, and pilot Charlie Schwenker, 64, died Saturday performing an aerial stunt at the Vectren Dayton Air Show.
Wicker, the FAA employee, was also a pilot, according to her personal website.
The National Transportation Safety Board is also investigating the crash, and an autopsy and toxicology test will be conducted separately.
Video from the event shows the small plane turn upside-down as the performer sits on top of the wing.
The plane then tilts and crashes to the ground at the Dayton International Airport.
The plane immediately burst into a fireball as a crowd of thousands, including Wicker's fiancé, watched in horror. Announcers at the show asked parents to turn their children away from the fiery scene.
The show was canceled for the rest of the day.
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