Tragedy has struck in the Fox news family after one of their local news anchors, Nancy Parker, was involved in a plane crash that also killed one other person.
Parker, a journalist with the local New Orleans station WVUE FOX 8 News for 23 years, died at age 53 when she was filming a story in a stunt plane with pilot Franklin J.P. Augustus, who had also died.
It is reported that a fire broke out shortly after the plane went down.
The Federal Aviation Administration is currently conducting an investigation into the crash.
Fox News Reports:
Longtime FOX 8 New Orleans reporter and anchor Nancy Parker was one of two people killed Friday when a small plane crashed near the city’s Lakefront Airport, the station confirmed.
The pilot, identified by Fox 8 as Franklin J.P. Augustus, also died in the crash, which happened just after 3 p.m. The station said Parker was shooting a story in a stunt plane at the time of the accident.
Parker, 53, had worked at the station for 23 years. She is survived by her husband and three children.
“Today we mourn the loss of our longtime colleague and friend Nancy Parker,” FOX 8 said in a Facebook post. “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.
“Nancy was a part of the FOX 8 family for the last 23 years,” the post continued. “She put her heart and soul into her work, covering thousands of stories and touching countless lives. She made a difference in the lives of those she reported on. She will be sorely missed, and her absence creates a void that cannot be filled.”
“It looks like the plane is completely charred,” said Gerald Herbert, an Associated Press photographer who also is a pilot and has a hangar at Lakefront Airport. He went to the site and described charred debris lying near a fence in a grassy field.
Fox 8 reported that the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are sending investigators to New Orleans to look into the crash.
Gayle Benson, the owner of the New Orleans Saints, said Parker will be “sadly missed.”
Let us please keep the deceased loved ones and the Fox News family in our prayers as they go through this difficult tragedy. Let us all remember Nancy Parker and let her legacy live one. We will have an update on the cause of the plane crash after the investigation is conducted.
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