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Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and his wife survive Tennessee plane crash

Published August 15, 2019 4:16 PM

Race car driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and his wife survived a small plane crash in Tennessee Thursday afternoon.

Earnhardt was hospitalized after the crash at Elizabethton Municipal Airport in Carter County.

The Cessna plane went off the end of a runway and caught fire after landing at the airport at around 3:40 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the cause of the crash.

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