pthreads and Sockets -> exits with "Killed"

Greetings, I am trying to create a program which works with both Sockets and pthreads.  The application listens on a specified TCP port and once a request is made it opens up two pthreads, one which parses the incoming data and places the information on a queue, and another that actually processes the information placed on the queue.

My Problem is that once I send data to the socket and the program reads from the socket it crashes with the output "Killed"... I cannot figure out why it is doing this. any ideas?

Here is the output from the program:

$ ./pp
queueInit: Queue Creation Successful.
Socket listening on port '3333'
Server Message: Awaiting socket request.
Server Message: Request acknowledged, processing packet...
Thread [16386] Created.
Thread [32771] Created.
Process Packet Subroutine: Queue EMPTY ... Waiting
Data Received: 192.168.2.11:80:>:192.168.2.1:80:S

Killed
$

As you can see It can open the port fine for listening, accept the data I send in the packet and output the data received ('192.168.2.11:80:>:192.168.2.1:80:S' is the data sent.) and then all of a sudden it simply crashes out with the output Killed.

Below is the relevant code,

//------------------------------------------> main()
...
for( ; ; )
{
     client = sizeof( client_addr );
     printf("Server: Awaiting request.\n");
     newsocket = accept( socket, (struct sockaddr *) &client_addr, &client_socket );
     printf("Server Message: Request acknowledged, processing request.\n");

     pthread_create( &extractor, NULL, extract_info, q );
     pthread_create( &process, NULL, process_packet, q );
     pthread_join( extractor, NULL );
     pthread_join( process, NULL );
}
...

//----------------------------------------->extract_info( void *fifo )
{
     char data[MAX_INPUT_LENGTH];
     input_t *input;
          input = (input_t *) malloc( sizeof( input_t * ) );
     queue *q;
          q = (queue *) fifo;

     printf("Thread [%d] Created.\n", pthread_self() );

     /* Read from the socket - retreive packet information */
     read( newsocket, &data, MAX_INPUT_LENGTH );
     printf("Data Received: %s\n", data );

     printf(" TEST?? " );
...
}

Note : that the program is able to print the Data Received .. Line.. however, it crashes before ever printing the "TEST??" ... As well, if I take out the data received line it does not print the TEST?? line.. it simply crashes out with "killed" again.

Thanks for your time in advance.  Any Comments / Suggestions welcome.