{"id":381401,"date":"2026-01-01T11:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/381401\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T11:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:54:18","slug":"public-remembrance-for-statesville-plane-crash-victims-scheduled-in-charlotte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/381401\/","title":{"rendered":"Public remembrance for Statesville plane crash victims scheduled in Charlotte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dec. 18 crash killed former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his wife Cristina, his children Emma and Ryder, Craig Wadsworth, Dennis Dutton and his son Jack Dutton.<\/p>\n<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2014 A public memorial for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmynews2.com\/article\/syndication\/associatedpress\/what-we-know-about-the-plane-crash-that-killed-nascars-greg-biffle-and-his-family\/616-2209022f-093b-48ab-a913-a83589084fab\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seven people killed in a plane crash in Statesville on Dec. 18<\/a>, including former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his wife and two children, will be held next month in Charlotte, a racing source confirmed to WFMY News 2.<\/p>\n<p>The service is scheduled for Friday, January 16, at Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>The event will honor Biffle, his wife Cristina, his children Emma and Ryder, Craig Wadsworth, Dennis Dutton and his son Jack Dutton.<\/p>\n<p>The deadly crash happened on Dec. 18, approximately 10 minutes after the Cessna C550 departed from Statesville Regional Airport around 10:15 a.m., officials said. An NTSB board member said during a news briefing that the plane hit an approach light stanchion about 1,800 feet from the runway threshold as it tried to return to the airport for an emergency landing.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash is still under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dec. 18 crash killed former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his wife Cristina, his children Emma and Ryder,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-381401","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\/381401","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=381401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}