Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s Plane Bounced After Hard Landing, Left Runway: Federal Aviation Administration

The burned remains of a plane that was carrying NASCAR television analyst and former driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. lie near a runway in Elizabethton, Tenn. on Aug. 15, 2019. Earl Neikirk/Bristol Herald Courier via AP

The plane carrying Dale Earnhardt Jr., his wife, and his daughter bounced after a hard landing and left the runway, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Aug. 16, a day after the incident.

The Cessna 680A Citation Latitude crashed as the pilots tried landing at Elizabethton Municipal Airport in Tennessee.