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Dale Earnhardt Jr's Plane Crashes
Dale Earnhardt Jr's plane crashes while landing at Elizabethton, TN airport. Everyone on board survived the crash. Dale Jr. was taken to the hospital for evaluation.
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08-15-2019, 04:26 PM | #2 |
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holy moly glad theyre okay!
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08-15-2019, 05:28 PM | #4 |
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if you walk away from it, it’s not a crash...it’s just a rough landing.
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So either Danica somehow now has a pilots license or Dale had something on Clinton.
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08-16-2019, 02:28 PM | #6 |
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NTSB just reported that the plane bounced high off the runway several times. The last time it bounced the right landing gear collapsed.
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2 pilots looking for jobs and an insurance company out about $20M
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They should have aborted and went around. Sounds like they continued trying to force it down , rather than going around. But yeah, we have to wait for the official findings, but that was my first thought.
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Since you are a pilot, I have a question. Both Elizabethton - 09A and Tri Cities - TRI are within 25 min drive to race track and within 12-15 mile of each other. Both are located close to the same amenities in the general area, hotels, restaurants, etc. Why chose Elizabethton with ~4600' runway over TRI Cities with ~8000' runways. I lived within 3 mile of the raceway for a few years a long time ago but had flown into Tri Cities on several occasions.
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The most useless thing to a pilot is the runway behind him......
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WOW that had to be a scary situation inside the plane, TG Dale & Family walked away
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