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Vez
10th July 2007, 18:15
Just read this on NASCAR.com

http://www.nascar.com/2007/news/headlines/cup/07/10/bc.car.smallplanecrash.ap/index.html

Sounds nasty
Phoenixent
10th July 2007, 18:30
The plane had Dr.Bruce Kennedy husband of Lesa France Kennedy and the head of NASCAR's air fleet. Thats according to the news at this time from NASCAR.
Hoss Ghoul
10th July 2007, 18:36
Wow, that's Lesa's father and husband in the span of a few weeks.

http://www.nascar.com/2007/news/headlines/cup/07/10/kennedy.plane.crash/index.html

The NASCAR community has horrible luck with planes and helicopters.
Jonesi
10th July 2007, 21:09
I'm not sure it's bad luck. There's just so much air travel involved with Nascar now and as safe as flying is, still the law of averages catches up eventualy.
Sparky1329
10th July 2007, 22:50
Apparently he didn't have much experience either so I'm sure that was a factor. Tragic.
Jonesi
11th July 2007, 00:22
Apparently he didn't have much experience either so I'm sure that was a factor. Tragic.

There was also a very experienced pilot on board, and I don't think they've said who was at the controls yet. However when something mechanically goes wrong it doesn't always matter who's flying.

(Years ago when I was taking aviation ground school night classes, our instructor missed a class because he had crashed that afternoon. He showed up the next week still recovering from burns. Going up for an instrument test they lost an engine on takeoff with a similar type plane. He took over the controls, saying to himself "This plane will fly on one engine This plane will fly on one engine". It didn't and he put it down on northbound US 101 tearing off both wings putting them in a ring of burning fuel.)

BTW as I type this Fox News has video of the house on fire.
blakebeatty
11th July 2007, 05:36
Yes, very sad, the ammount of tragedy that has followed NASCAR in the last decade.
trumperZ06
11th July 2007, 16:29
:( It's worse than that. Five people have been killed due to the plane crash.

Two adults aboard the plane, and a woman and two children (a six month old boy & a four year old girl). The children's parents were seriously injured.
tstran17_88
11th July 2007, 18:38
:( It's worse than that. Five people have been killed due to the plane crash.

Two adults aboard the plane, and a woman and two children (a six month old boy & a four year old girl). The children's parents were seriously injured.
I feel more sorry for the families of the people that lived in those houses. And I sit here and wonder why they were flying from Daytona to Lakeland when it's only a 2 1/2 hour drive?
Vez
25th July 2007, 17:02
Here's an update on the investigation:
http://www.nascar.com/2007/news/headlines/cup/07/24/bkennedy.plane.crash.ap/index.html