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Pilot error contributed to Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s 2019 plane crash

by Amanda Vincent
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Pilot error contributed to Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s 2019 plane crash

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - DECEMBER 05: Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Cassadee Pope attend the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Awards at Music City Center on December 05, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)

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A National Transportation Safety Board investigation into the crash of a plane carrying Dale Earnhart Jr., his wife and his daughter in Elizabethton, Tenn., last August has been completed. The NTSB has concluded that pilot error contributed to the crash.

“The pilot’s continuation of an unstabilized approach despite recognizing associated cues and the flight crew’s decision not to initiate a go-around before touchdown, which resulted in a bounced landing, a loss of airplane control, a landing gear collapse, and a runway excursion,” the statement from the NTSB read. “Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s failure to deploy the speedbrakes during the initial touchdown, which may have prevented the runway excursion, and the pilot’s attempt to go around after deployment of the thrust reversers.”

The initial NTSB report days after the incident cited a failure of the plane’s landing gear as a cause of the crash.

The Cessna Citation Latitute, owned by Earnhardt’s JR Motorsports NASCAR Xfinity Series team, was on its way Bristol Motor Speedway when it crashed at the Elizabethton airport. The plane bounced twice and skidded off the airports runway and crashed through a chain-link fence. The plane became egulfed in flames. None of the individuals on board, including two pilots, were seriously injured. Earnhardt reported minor injuries, including bruising on his back.

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