{"id":359001,"date":"2025-12-21T04:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/359001\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T04:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:15:11","slug":"greg-biffle-plane-wreckage-revealed-in-harrowing-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/359001\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Biffle Plane Wreckage Revealed in Harrowing Footage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/7909179b5c2546d3ba81f49c800dc66b_md.png\" alt=\"122025_greg_biffle_crash_footage_kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    NTSB<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are still looking into the plane crash that claimed NASCAR legend Greg Biffle&#8217;s life &#8230; and, new video shows them looking for clues in the wreckage.<\/p>\n<p>The National Transportation Safety Board released video of agents combing through the debris &#8230; taking photos of the plane and looking in the woods surrounding the crash area.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20251220_7a21bdd19bbc40a4b54d1124eb782ee8\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:bc57e36b-6476-4471-a249-b868e9e4a4c5\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/7a21bdd19bbc40a4b54d1124eb782ee8_md.png\" alt=\"122025_greg_biffle_crash_footage_engine_primary\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The plane&#8217;s a wreck &#8230; broken into pieces both large and small and burned to a crisp in places. It&#8217;s unclear what investigators might be able to glean from the crash site.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At a press conference held Saturday morning, officials essentially said they&#8217;ve not yet determined the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>However, the NTSB did confirm someone on the plane <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/12\/18\/nascar-greg-biffle-wife-texted-mom-before-plane-crash\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sent a text<\/a> to a family member with the words &#8220;emergency landing&#8221; in it.<\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/f16f4c9ae1084b0ab593c6b1636e82a8_md.png\" alt=\"121925_greg_biffle_jet_crash_kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    Bobby Renwick via Storyful<\/p>\n<p>We published video of Biffle&#8217;s jet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/12\/19\/greg-biffle-plane-explode-new-video-nascar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crashing near a runway<\/a> at Statesville Regional Airport in North Carolina &#8230; looking like a large ball of fire as it crashed to the earth. The aircraft was supposed to fly to Florida, but turned back shortly after takeoff before the tragic crash.<\/p>\n<p>Biffle, his wife Cristina, his two children &#8212; Emma, 14, and Ryder, 5 &#8212; Craig Wadsworth, Dennis Dutton and Jack Dutton all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/12\/18\/greg-biffle-dead-plane-crash-nascar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">perished in the crash<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>RIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Play video content NTSB Investigators are still looking into the plane crash that claimed NASCAR legend Greg Biffle&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-359001","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\/359001","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=359001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}