Plane Owned by Former NASCAR Driver Greg Biffle Crashes in North Carolina

Former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and his family have been killed in a North Carolina plane crash. Family friend and auto racing social media personality Garrett Mitchell confirmed the report.

"Unfortunately, I can confirm Greg Biffle, his wife Cristina, daughter Emma, and son Ryder were on that plane… because they were on their way to spend the afternoon with us," Mitchell, who posts under the pseudonym Cleetus McFarland, said in a Facebook post. "We are devastated. I’m so sorry to share this."

The Cessna C550 private jet crashed at the Statesville Regional Airport in Iredell County in North Carolina.

Biffle's company, GB Aviation, owned the Cessna C550 airplane that crashed around 10:15 a.m. on an attempted landing in Statesville.

According to FlightAware tracking, the plane with the tag N257BW took off from Statesville Regional Airport with a destination of Sarasota/Bradenton International Airport in Florida. The plane was scheduled to be in Florida for less than an hour, before heading to Treasure Cay in the Bahamas. It was then scheduled to head to Fort Lauderdale, before returning to Statesville at a scheduled arrival time of 8:22 p.m.

Officials have not released the names of those on the plane have not been released.

Statesville officials held a brief news conference at 12:30 p.m., confirming that the plane had crashed and further information would be released later. The airport is currently closed because of the debris.

This is a breaking story and will be updated with additional inf