{"id":368087,"date":"2025-12-25T13:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T13:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/368087\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T13:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T13:46:07","slug":"greg-biffle-plane-crash-holiday-card-arriving-after-former-nascar-driver-family-killed-in-statesville-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/368087\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Biffle plane crash | Holiday card arriving after former NASCAR driver, family killed in Statesville plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">STATESVILLE, N.C.  (WTVD) &#8212; Today marks one week since <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc11.com\/post\/nc-plane-crash-passenger-sent-text-family-member-ahead-killed-greg-biffle-ntsb-says\/18303067\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle<\/a>, his wife and three children, and three family friends were killed in a plane crash in Statesville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc11.com\/post\/plane-crashes-catches-fire-landing-statesville-regional-airport-north-carolina\/18298055\/?userab=abc_web_player-460*variant_b_abc_dmp-1901%2Cotv_web_player-461*variant_b_otv_dmp-1903%2Cotv_web_content_rec-445*variant_a_control-1849%2Chp_banner-426*variant_c_bouncing_arrow-1779\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crash happened as the plane was returning<\/a> to the Statesville Airport minutes after taking off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Friends of the retired NASCAR driver are now reporting the family&#8217;s holiday card is now arriving in mailboxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The card features the family of four smiling, with the message, &#8220;We hope that you are able to slow down and enjoy the magic and joy that this season has to offer. We hope you have a great new year! Sending love, Greg, Cristina, Emma &amp; Ryder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc11.com\/post\/federal-regulators-investigate-north-carolina-plane-crash-involving-former-nascar-driver-greg-biffle-family\/18300317\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NTSB is investigating<\/a> last Thursday&#8217;s crash. Investigators are also still trying to determine who was flying the plane at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Three people on board the plane, including Biffle, had their pilots license.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WTVD-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATESVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) &#8212; Today marks one week since former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his wife and three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[157610,49,48,634,151133,82],"class_list":["post-368087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-157610","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-priority","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368087","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=368087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}