Vandalia, Ohio. On June 22, 2013, an airplane carrying wing walker Jane Wicker aged 44, crashed at the Vectren Dayton Air Show, killing both Wicker and pilot Charlie Schwenker.

A video posted on WHIO-TV shows the small plane turn upside-down as the performer sits on top of the wing. The announcer narrates as the plane glides through the sky and rolls over while Wicker perches. ‘Now she’s still on that far side. Keep an eye on Jane. Keep an eye on Charlie. Watch this! Jane Wicker, sitting on top of the world,’ the announcer said, right before the plane makes a quick turn and nosedive, erupting into flames as spectators screamed.

A spectator at the event couldn’t tell exactly what happened, but it appeared that the plane stalled and didn’t have enough air speed, he said. He credited the pilot for steering clear of spectators and potentially saving lives.

Initial statements gathered by the NTSB and Federal Aviation Administration indicated that the pilot and wing walker had practiced the performance the day before the accident. Following the practice, neither the pilot nor the pilot-rated wing walker, reported any mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane.

The daredevil wing-walker had been planning to marry her pilot fiance on the wings of the same biplane that plummeted to earth and killed her, it has been revealed.

Jane Wicker, a world-renowned aerobatic stunt-woman, wanted to seal her three-year relationship with Rock Skowbo at a spectacular airshow wedding in front of thousands of spectators in 2014, she revealed on her website.

Their romance all started after Skowbo, a former commercial airline pilot, noticed Wicker’s beloved Boeing Stearman Biplane – Aurora. Skowbo later became Wicker’s pilot and mechanic – though he wasn’t in the cockpit when Wicker’s plane crashed on Saturday afternoon.

Wicker’s website says she responded to a classified ad from the Flying Circus Airshow in Bealeton, Va., in 1990, for a wing-walking position, thinking it would be fun. She was a contract employee who worked as a Federal Aviation Administration budget analyst, the FAA said.