We’re learning more about a pilot who lost her life in a tragic crash at the Northeast Florida Regional Airport.
Loved ones identified her as Marianne Fox, a 49-year-old Oregon native who had been completing a cross-country trip from her home state when she issued a distress call.Action News Jax learned she was flying in a high-performance aerobatic plane. Radio calls from the airport tower reveal what was said before and after she crashed.Fox’s loved one Jim Bourke described her as an adventurous, charming, intelligent, and caring person in a public Facebook post.
“My flight partner is having engine trouble. The engine is not running well, she’s showing smoke and she’s making a beeline for the airport right now,” her flight partner said over the radio.“It looked like she tried to put it down and it kind of flipped over. We couldn’t tell,” was said on the radio.
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