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| Wing walker and pilot killed in crash at Ohio show | Wing walker and pilot killed in crash at Ohio show |
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| A wing walker and her pilot were killed when their biplane crashed during an air show near Dayton, in the US state of Ohio. | |
| The plane carrying the wing walker overturned and hit the ground, bursting into flames in front of spectators at the Vectren Dayton Air Show. | The plane carrying the wing walker overturned and hit the ground, bursting into flames in front of spectators at the Vectren Dayton Air Show. |
| Organisers cancelled the show for the rest of the day. | Organisers cancelled the show for the rest of the day. |
| A veteran stunt pilot, Jim LeRoy, was killed when his plane crashed and burned at the 2007 Vectren Dayton show. | A veteran stunt pilot, Jim LeRoy, was killed when his plane crashed and burned at the 2007 Vectren Dayton show. |
| The incident occurred at 12:45 (16:45 GMT). No spectators were hurt. | |
| The identity of the two victims has not been confirmed officially. | |
| 'Really close' | |
| "All of a sudden I heard screaming and looked up and there was a fireball,'' spectator Stan Thayer of Wilmington, Ohio, told broadcaster WHIO. | |
| Shawn Warwick of New Knoxville said he was watching the plane through binoculars. | |
| "I noticed it was upside down really close to the ground," he was quoted as saying by the Dayton Daily News. | |
| "She was sitting on the bottom of the plane. I saw it just go right into the ground and explode." | |
| His wife was getting a drink when the crash happened. "I came back and everybody was just in shock," said Cara Warwick. | |
| One of the country's oldest air shows, Vectren Dayton usually draws around 70,000 people. |