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Report: NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick shaken up in plane crash [w/video] (Autoblog)
Filed under: Motorsports, Safety, Videos
Good brakes may be less important in stock car racing than in other forms of
motorsport, but on a plane, they're pretty darn important. That's what Rick
Hendrick found out - the hard way - last night when his private jet crashed
off the runway in Key West, Florida.
Hendrick's Gulfstream G150, registered to Jimmie Johnson (one of Hendrick's
star drivers), slid straight off the runway and almost into the water when its
brakes apparently failed upon landing. On board together with the NASCAR team
owner were his wife Linda and two pilots. Fortunately, CNN reports that no one
was seriously injured.
The incident must have been especially traumatic for the Hendricks, who lost
seven members of their family - including their son Ricky who drove for and
ran the team with his dad - in a 2004 plane crash. However, the Hendricks
aren't the only ones to have been affected by plane crashes: Fellow NASCAR
team owner Jack Roush has survived two such incidents, while off-road racer
Rick Huseman and his brother Jeff were killed in a small plane crash in
California a couple of weeks ago.
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