{"id":323780,"date":"2025-12-19T01:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/323780\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:15:08","slug":"retired-nascar-driver-among-seven-killed-in-north-carolina-plane-crash-motorsports-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/323780\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired NASCAR driver among seven killed in North Carolina plane crash | Motorsports News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Greg Biffle\u2019s plane caught fire after crash-landing at a regional airport, state authorities said. Other victims have not yet been identified.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 18 Dec 202518 Dec 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>A former NASCAR driver has been identified as one of seven people who died in a plane crash in the southern United States.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Greg Biffle and members of his family died when a private jet crashed on Thursday while trying to land at Statesville Regional Airport, north of Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>Flight records showed the\u00a0plane was registered to a company run by Biffle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the post-crash fire prevents us from releasing a definitive list of the occupants at this time, it is believed that Mr Gregory Biffle and members of his immediate family were occupants of the airplane,\u201d state police said.<\/p>\n<p>Further details about the victims were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-4183208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AP25352721309586-1766095408.jpg\" alt=\"north carolina\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>First responders tend to the scene of a reported plane crash at a regional airport in Statesville, North Carolina [Matt Kelley\/The Associated Press]<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his 16-year career, Biffle won more than 50 races across the three racing-circuit types offered by NASCAR, a US-based association for car races.<\/p>\n<p>He placed first in 19 races at the Cup Series, considered NASCAR\u2019s top level. He also won the Craftsman Truck Series championship in 2000 and the Xfinity Series title in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Biffle\u2019s plane had taken off from the airport shortly after 10am local time on Thursday (15:00 GMT), but it then returned to North Carolina and was attempting to land there, according to tracking data posted by FlightAware.com.<\/p>\n<p>Video from WSOC-TV showed first responders rushing onto the runway as flames burned near scattered wreckage from the plane.<\/p>\n<p>The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) were investigating the crash.<\/p>\n<p>All told, the NTSB has investigated 1,331 crashes in the US in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greg Biffle\u2019s plane caught fire after crash-landing at a regional airport, state authorities said. Other victims have not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2410,59,18733,50,101,56,54,158,55,3544],"class_list":{"0":"post-323780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aviation","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-motorsports","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedkingdom","17":"tag-us-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}