WSOC-TV in Charlotte<\/a>, a Cessna C550 business jet crashed while landing at Statesville Regional Airport around 10:20 a.m. on Thursday. <\/p>\nThe plane is owned by former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle through GB Aviation Leasing, according to the TV station. <\/p>\n
The Iredell County Sheriff\u2019s Office has confirmed fatalities but didn\u2019t reveal names or how many. <\/p>\n
A witness from nearby Lakewood Golf Club observed the incident and told the TV station that the plane was \u201cway too low\u201d before it crashed amid drizzle and cloudy skies. <\/p>\n
The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating. <\/p>\n
Biffle, 55, had 19 career Cup Series wins and is one of three drivers that have won a championship in both the Busch Series and the Craftsman Truck Series. <\/p>\n
Biffle was named one of NASCAR\u2019s 75 greatest drivers in 2023. He is married and has two kids. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple people are dead after a plane linked to a NASCAR star crashed in North Carolina. According to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-353799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}