Death
On October 24, 2004, around 12:30 p.m. EDT, Hendrick died in a plane crash near Martinsville, Virginia. With him were nine others who also lost their lives. The plane, on its way to the Martinsville Speedway, crashed on Bull Mountain due to pilot error in heavy fog.
After Ricky died, his 18-year-old fiancée Emily Maynard found out she was pregnant. Maynard gave birth to his daughter, Josephine Riddick "Ricki" Hendrick, who was named after him with a suffix of "-ine," on June 29, 2005, and would later compete in season 15 of The Bachelor and season eight of The Bachelorette.
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