accident. i was so shocked because the crowd, some thousands of people were here, and you could have heard a pin drop. we have an airplane that went down at the air show. fortunately, our crash fire rescue trucks were rolling before the airplane ever got on the ground and so they were there almost immediately. both amanda and kyle survive the crash, but they re not out of danger. and a couple of seconds later, smoke started coming down. kyle got out almost immediately and was trying to help amanda out when a fire ensued. but she s still strapped to the plane and kyle can t free her. i heard amanda. she was screaming. i heard the scream and i ran to the plane. air show worker eddie alvarez
it s a really thrilling thing to see. the routine is going exactly as they rehearse it. amanda s jaw-dropping stunts and kyle s aerial acrobatics wow the crowd. kyle franklin is one of the finest performers i ve ever seen. his airplane is unique biplane. it s big, it s loud. he makes it do things that airplanes shouldn t be able to do. he has a pretty sophisticated smoke system that pumps out smoke as he s doing, you know, all of his aerobatic maneuvers and it s quite entertaining. and amanda, basically, crawls all over the airplane while kyle is doing all sorts of aerobatic maneuvers with that big old biplane of his. but toward the end of their routine, something goes horribly wrong. there was one final loop that they made and i guess we were all just waiting for them to come back down. he s going to crash. and the plane didn t come back up. it just kind of disappeared behind a little brush line. i didn t know what was happening. we actually thought it was part of the
is one of the first people to respond to the crash site. and what he sees, shocks him. first thing when i got there, i noticed i saw the fire. the fire threatens to consume the entire plane. rescuers have little time. copy. they eventually started taking them out and then they were able to get them out and take them to the local hospitals here. unfortunately kyle and amanda both sustained burns as a result of that. kyle sustained burns on his arms and as of today, he s still undergoing physical therapy. but amanda s injuries are far more severe. one week after the crash, an emotional kyle franklin describes the extent of his wife s injuries. she s got burns over 70% of her body. she s got inhalation injury. she s got a broken neck. a broken back. her face is smashed.
she was standing on the top wing when they crashed into the brush she was inside the front cockpit. they leveled out so that amanda could get back inside the cockpit. he had to get amanda back in the airplane before he actually could adjust his direction, otherwise she might have fallen off the wing. and then as he tried to make his way back into the open area, he didn t have enough altitude so he went down in the brush just across that across the runway. after the wreckage is cleared, the crash site provides clues as to what split-second decisions kyle made in an attempt to save his and amanda s lives. this is where the plane went down. and after looking at the site, it appears to me that he was trying to turn back towards the runway because there s a tree up there that has some branches
aerobatic maneuvers. and it s quite entertaining. and amanda, basically, crawls all over the airplane while kyle is doing all sorts of aerobatic maneuvers with that big old biplane of his. but toward the end of their routine, something goes horribly wrong. there was one final loop that they made and i guess we were all just waiting for them to come back down. he s going to crash. and the plane didn t come back up. it just kind of disappeared behind a little brush line. i didn t know what was happening. we actually thought it was part of the show at first. people were anticipating for the plane to come back up. the plane never rises and people in the crowd realize they just witnessed a terrible accident. i was so shocked because the crowd, some thousands of people were here, and you could have heard a pin drop.