I'm suprised this hasn't been posted yet. (If it has and I missed it I apologize). This couple was actually supposed to be at the Alliance Airshow in Fort Worth that I go to every year but crashed their biplane a few days ago at an airshow in Brownsville Tx after the engine caught fire during the performance.
~ A husband-wife aerobatics team suffered extensive burns when the engine on the aerobatics plane burst into flames, forcing them into a fiery crash-landing at a South Texas airshow. Kyle and Amanda Franklin were airlifted to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio after the Saturday accident. A telephone message requesting their conditions Sunday weren't returned by hospital personnel, but airshow spokesman Chris Hughston said they were listed in critical condition Saturday night.
The incident happened at Air Fiesta 2011 at Brownsville-South Padre Island International Airport. Hughston says Amanda Franklin was in the middle of her wing-walking act with her husband at the controls when the engine erupted in flames. She was able to scramble back into the plane and her husband made a crash landing as flames enveloped the biplane. Here's the video. You can see the flames coming from the engine and Amanda crawling back into the plane just before it goes down. I wish them a sppedy recovery!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Dw6-YAXtM
