NASCAR team owner Jack Roush crashed his plane in Oshkosh, Wis., Tuesday night, and he is in serious but stable condition with injuries that included facial wounds, according to the Associated Press.
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Roush and his passenger were both lucky enough to be able to get out of his plane after it crashed and walk away. Roush is an aviation aficionado who was in Oshkosh to attend the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual AirVenture event this week.
The EAA had posted a statement on its website about Roush’s crash, saying that a Beechcraft Premier jet registered to Roush Fenway Racing had an accident while landing at Oshkosh’s Wittman Regional Airport. The only occpants of the plane were Roush and Brenda Strickland, his friend from Plymouth, Mich.
Strickland was hospitalized with what were described as non-threatening injuries.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the accident.
Roush, an ex-Ford engineer and college physics professor, owns a number of planes.
He was almost killed in a plane crash in 2002, when he landed in a pond and almost drowned. But he was rescued and pulled out of the water.
