Plane crash nola east (Fox 8 News anchor Nancy Parker killed in the crash...RIP)

If it was the Pitts S-2 that Augustus used to perform his stunt shows, then the reporters really got some poor information early on. A high performance biplane is a completely different animal. Low altitude engine loss is a lot more critical in such an aircraft and could have been responsible for what happened yesterday.
This just goes to show that eye witness accounts of plane crashes are notoriously unreliable.
Most eye witnesses know little about aircraft and a surprisingly large number will remember seeing fire.