Jane Wicker News Today

This is the story of a tragic accident that sent Endless Thread producer Quincy Walters, and countless others, down a disturbing and fascinating rabbit hole about a small, daring group of people called wing walkers and a woman who wanted to live her life "to its optimum."

Thing went down, right before it went down. the faa and other agencies are now investigating this incident. the results are not expected for self months but the faa reports both victims had a clean safety record. according to wickers web site, she was planning to mary her husband in a spectacular air show wedding next youre, suppose lid on the very same play that crashed on sunday. johna has been wing-walking for ten years. she knew both the victims, the wingwalker and the pilot, and its all ver...

Plane flips over she is sitting up. listen to the announcer and watch the shot. jane wicker and then well get it before the crash. >> you have to fight the wind and get yourself back up right. you think that jane is going to disappear and still on that far side. keep an eye on jane, wicker. sets on top of the world. oh, no. >> jane on top of the world. well she you it appears that the plane is flying too low and not going fast enough and it fell on the ground. 64-year-old pilot did not have enou...

The world. >> reporter: but this time, something went terribly wrong. >> i can see something is wrong. i almost was ready to tell everybody to get out of the way. >> reporter: wicker and her pilot were in the middle of a maneuver when the plane suddenly plunged to the ground and exploded in flames. they both died. spectators described what they saw. >> all we seen was the plane roll over and hit the ground. they were too close to the ground. there was no way they would make that turn. just flipp...

>> john suarez, cuban director, great ip sight this morning. thanks for joining us, john. >> thank you for having me. >> we want to update our viewers. if youre just waking up this hour, youre looking at a live flight tracker of edward snowdens plane. basically hes an hour and 52 minutes. if you stick with us in our 9:00 hour hes going to land in moscow, as he left hong kong of his final destination is anyones guess. hes accompanied, according to wikileaks on wikileaks twitter page accompanied o...

>> wing walker jane wicker and her pilot charlie schwenker were mid performance when the plane took a sudden nosedive and burst into flames on the ground. witnesses say the plane was flying low before crashing. >> its kind of surreal that you can believe something like that actually happened in front of you. youre just kind of in a state of shock. you really dont know what to think. i just started praying. >> the air show was canceled yesterday. organizers say they want the show to continue toda...

Affiliate whio reports wing walker jane wicker was performing on her biplane when it crashed in a grassy area when two runways and then exploded. her pilot was also killed. and a big step in the george zimmerman case today that could change the course of this trial. the judge ruled testimony from two prosecution witnesses who analyzed screams on the 911 calls cannot be used. those calls were from neighbors who heard a fight the night trayvon martin died. listen -- >> does he look hurt to you? ...

All right. welcome back, everyone, half past the hour right now. want to get a look at your headlines here on cnn. youre about to see some frightening video, it is an airplane crash that killed two people, one of them a famous air show performer. watch. >> jane wicker sitting on top of the world. oh, no. >> so, there you go. we froze the video because it is our policy there not to show you that. heres another angle the moments just before the crash. it happened this afternoon in dayton, ohio, ...

Hear it. it hurts their argument. >> all right. george howell, thank you so much. i know youll be covering it. opening statements beginning on monday. jury now seated. all women, six women. it should be a fascinating case that will be unfolding, of course. >> certainly. >> thanks so much, george. we have a report of two dead now in the crash of a stunt plane at an air show in dayton. cnn affiliate whio reports the plane burst into flames when it hit the ground, killing the planes owner, the wi...

>> im jane. >> im charlie. watch this. jane wicker sitting on top of the world. oh, no. >> well, we froze the video because we dont show the moment when someone dies. jane wicker and her stunt pilot both were killed in that crash today. it happened at the dayton air show. one of the biebiggest in americ with thousands of people watching. no word on what caused the plane to crash. a big step in the george zimmerman case today that could change the course of the trial. the judge ruled the testim...