Crash
The King Air took off from Concord, North Carolina at 12 pm EST, carrying ten passengers. Among them were several key Hendrick Motorsports staff, including team president John Hendrick and his twin daughters, Kimberly and Jennifer Hendrick; Ricky Hendrick, son of Rick Hendrick; general manager Jeff Turner; and chief engine builder Randy Dorton. The other people on board were Joe Jackson, a DuPont executive; Scott Lathram, a pilot for driver Tony Stewart; and pilots Richard Tracy and Elizabeth Morrison. The plane was en route to the Subway 500 Nextel Cup Series race at Martinsville, Virginia when it was reported missing at 3:00 pm. After an extensive search by a ground team of the Danville Composite Squadron of Civil Air Patrol as well as others, the wreckage of the plane was found at Bull Mountain at 11 pm. No one on board survived.
NASCAR received word of the plane crash during the 2004 Subway 500 in Martinsville. After the race was over, NASCAR immediately summoned all the Hendrick Motorsports drivers– including race winner Jimmie Johnson– to the NASCAR hauler and all victory lane ceremonies were cancelled.
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Famous quotes containing the word crash:
“You crash over the trees,
you crack the live branch.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
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—Karl Liebknecht (1871–1919)
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—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)