The pilot of a small plane in a deadly crash near New Orleans radioed the control tower shortly after takeoff about unspecified problems and sought clearance to return, according to federal investigators.
The pilot of a small plane in a deadly crash near New Orleans' Lakefront Airport radioed the control tower shortly after takeoff about unspecified problems and sought clearance to return, federal investigators said Saturday.
"Witnesses reported observing the airplane appeared to have engine problems shortly after take-off," the NTSB statement said."According to witnesses the airplane then pitched down and struck the ground."Killed were Franklin J.P. Augustus, 69, a veteran acrobatic air show pilot and New Orleans-based member of a group that honored the Tuskegee Airmen, and Nancy Parker, 53, a TV journalist in New Orleans for more than two decades.
Parker's husband, Glynn"Glen" Boyd, posted a heartbreaking message on Facebook early Saturday that read,"I would trade places with her right now."
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