{"id":356591,"date":"2025-12-20T00:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/356591\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T00:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:38:07","slug":"latest-details-on-greg-biffle-plane-crash-death-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/356591\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest details on Greg Biffle plane crash, death, investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR legend Greg Biffle\u2019s private plane was in the air for just seven minutes and was \u201cincredibly close\u201d to making a safe emergency landing before it suddenly burst into flames \u2014 killing all seven on board, experts said.<\/p>\n

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Biffle, his family and three others all died when the Cessna C550 jet they were on experienced engine problems and crashed<\/a> just shy of the runway at Statesville Regional Airport in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

The plane had only just taken off from the airport, roughly 72 kilometres north of Charlotte, when it made an abrupt 180-degree turn and headed back, flight records show.<\/p>\n

Cristina Biffle\u2019s mom told People that her daughter had sent her a tragic text message saying, \u201cWe\u2019re in trouble,\u201d just moments before the crash.<\/p>\n

Aviation expert Max Trescott told the NTSB News Talk podcast that the tracking data showed a \u201crather unusual\u201d jump after the jet had been in the air for seven minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey got incredibly close and somehow lost things just at the very end,\u201d Trescott said.<\/p>\n

His remarks came as federal investigators sifted through the wreckage Friday as they tried to determine who was actually flying the plane and what caused it to try and make an emergency landing so soon after takeoff.<\/p>\n

Biffle, his wife, Cristina, and children Ryder, 5, and Emma, 14, were all killed in the crash.<\/p>\n

The other victims were identified as Dennis Dutton, Dutton\u2019s son, Jack, and Biffle\u2019s friend, Craig Wadsworth.<\/p>\n

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