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Video of Plane Crash at Dayton Air Show – Wing Walker

June 22, 2013

Dayton Air Show crash

By Cynthia Herbert :: 2:37 PM

A biplane has crashed at the Dayton Air Show in Ohio earlier today, in the middle of a wing walker stunt.

The aircraft, a 450 HP Stearman, hit the ground and exploded into a fireball just before 1 p.m. local time.

Emergency services were on the scene in seconds, and extinguished the fire.

Wing walker, Jane Wicker, and the pilot, were both killed in the crash, according to reports from the Associated Press.

Steve Mehaffie, a spectator in the crowd shot the video of the crash, below, and uploaded it to YouTube.

Warning, the video is graphic, and shows the crash in its entirety.