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Gary
OSHKOSH — NASCAR team owner Jack Roush was injured when the business jet he was flying made a hard landing Tuesday afternoon at Wittman Regional Airport.
Witnesses said the plane was coming in too low and too slow as it approached the south end of the airport's north-south runway, which caused the plane to start to roll. The nose then hit the ground, the plane spun 180 degrees and the tail broke off.
"It looked like a bad approach and he overcorrected and then crashed," said Mark Yarnell, of New Philadelphia, Ohio.
**** Knapinski, communications officer for the Experimental Aircraft Association, said Roush was piloting the plane when it went down, and there was one passenger on board.
Roush, 68, of Northville, Mich., walked away from the crash and was transported to Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah, where he was listed in critical condition Tuesday night, according to a hospital spokeswoman.
Roush Fenway Racing president Geoff Smith told The Associated Press that Roush is expected to recover.
"There are injuries. Possible surgery," Smith said in a text message to AP. "But he walked out of the plane."
The Raytheon business jet is registered to Roush Fenway Racing, the Concord, North Carolina NASCAR team owned by Roush, according to the Federal Aviation Administration's online aircraft registry. The plane seats eight people and has two engines.
The passenger, Brenda K. Strickland, 61, of Plymouth, Mich., also was taken to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries, Knapinski said.
Both Roush and Strickland had safely exited the plane on their own before fire and ambulance crews arrived, Knapinski said.
The accident was reported at 6:15 p.m.
Fire and ambulance crews arrived shortly after the crash and immediately began working to prevent fuel from burning.
A crowd that was on the flight line was moved back about 200 yards as a precaution, in case the airplane would have burst into flames.
The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration are investigating the cause of the accident.
Gary
OSHKOSH — NASCAR team owner Jack Roush was injured when the business jet he was flying made a hard landing Tuesday afternoon at Wittman Regional Airport.
Witnesses said the plane was coming in too low and too slow as it approached the south end of the airport's north-south runway, which caused the plane to start to roll. The nose then hit the ground, the plane spun 180 degrees and the tail broke off.
"It looked like a bad approach and he overcorrected and then crashed," said Mark Yarnell, of New Philadelphia, Ohio.
**** Knapinski, communications officer for the Experimental Aircraft Association, said Roush was piloting the plane when it went down, and there was one passenger on board.
Roush, 68, of Northville, Mich., walked away from the crash and was transported to Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah, where he was listed in critical condition Tuesday night, according to a hospital spokeswoman.
Roush Fenway Racing president Geoff Smith told The Associated Press that Roush is expected to recover.
"There are injuries. Possible surgery," Smith said in a text message to AP. "But he walked out of the plane."
The Raytheon business jet is registered to Roush Fenway Racing, the Concord, North Carolina NASCAR team owned by Roush, according to the Federal Aviation Administration's online aircraft registry. The plane seats eight people and has two engines.
The passenger, Brenda K. Strickland, 61, of Plymouth, Mich., also was taken to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries, Knapinski said.
Both Roush and Strickland had safely exited the plane on their own before fire and ambulance crews arrived, Knapinski said.
The accident was reported at 6:15 p.m.
Fire and ambulance crews arrived shortly after the crash and immediately began working to prevent fuel from burning.
A crowd that was on the flight line was moved back about 200 yards as a precaution, in case the airplane would have burst into flames.
The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration are investigating the cause of the accident.