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Plane crash involving racing driver Dale Earnhardt Jr (Original Post)
brooklynite
Aug 2019
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Vinca
(50,302 posts)1. Yike! That must have been terrifying. Wonder if anyone else survived.
Update: Just heard a news broadcast in the background and everyone survived. Amazing.
malaise
(269,157 posts)3. Two amazing landings and escapes today
Wow!
The other one was in Russia with 226 passengers
I mean it feels amazing and great, and at the same time creepy just because two planes went down today...
Amazing piloting skills on display though! So glad everyone survived both!!
SouthernIrish
(512 posts)5. They all survived
Dale Jr, his wife Amy, and their baby Isla
The two pilots are ok too.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,376 posts)8. Here's the aircraft;
Citation A680 "Citation Latitude" $14.5 mil new
Glad everyone is alright
Elizabethton Airport, not far from Bristol, where the Cup cars are running this weekend;
https://goo.gl/maps/CFGNPc2Cd68TCSi58
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)9. He should fly in on normal airline. It seems less risky.
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)10. Bill Elliott and his son Chase fly a private
aircraft, I heard. They have an airstrip in their former hometown of Dawsonville GA. I guess flying into Hartsfield Jackson and driving home takes too long.