As previously reported, a huge fireball erupted after a private jet crashed at Statesville Regional Airport at 10:15 am.
BREAKING: A small aircraft has crashed at #Statesville Regional Airport north of Charlotte, North Carolina. We are working to learn more. pic.twitter.com/60i0L1bqNv
— Kaitlin Wright (@wxkaitlin) December 18, 2025
NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his wife, and children were onboard the plane when it crashed.
“Unfortunately, I can confirm Greg Biffle, his wife Cristina, and son Ryder were on that plane… because they were on their way to spend the afternoon with us.” We are devastated. I’m so sorry to share this,” Biffle’s friend Garrett Mitchell wrote on Facebook.
#BREAKING: Carolina plane Crash, The private jet, a Cessna Citation II, which crashed earlier this morning at Statesville Regional Airport in North Carolina, “contained NASCAR Driver Greg Biffle, his wife, and children.” pic.twitter.com/ZSbYjV2Jsc
— BEE NewsTV (@Bee_NewsTV) December 18, 2025
Cristina Biffle sent an alarming text to her mother shortly before the plane crashed: “We’re in trouble.”
PEOPLE reported:
NASCAR champion Greg Biffle’s wife Cristina sent a harrowing message moments before the fatal plane crash that killed the couple, their family and three others, Cristina’s mother tells PEOPLE.
Just before her death on Thursday, Dec. 18, Cristina Grossu Biffle, 35, texted her mother Cathy Grossu, writing, “We’re in trouble,” Cathy tells PEOPLE.
“She texted me from the plane and she said, ‘We’re in trouble.’ And that was it,” Cathy says, crying. “So we’re devastated. We’re brokenhearted.”
The crash killed seven people in total: Greg, 55, Cristina, their son Ryder, 5, and Greg’s daughter Emma, 14 (who he shared with ex-wife Nicole Lunders); plus Dennis Dutton and his son Jack; and Craig Wadsworth.
The group was heading out for a “birthday trip” in Florida, Cathy says.
“To think that they would be killed on a birthday trip, that was just such a fun time for the family,” she says. “And to see the horrific way that it ended, it’s just, it is so hard to bear. I cannot believe they’re gone.”
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