Jack Roush was involved in a plane accident Tuesday night at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wis., according to a statement posted on the website of the Experimental Aircraft Association.
The EAA’s annual AirVenture event is this week in Oshkosh.
“There are injuries. Possible surgery,” Roush Fenway Racing president Geoff Smith said in a text message to The Associated Press. “But he walked out of the plane.”
According to the EAA, the National Transportation Safety Board and Winnebago County Sheriff’s Department confirmed the two occupants on board were team co-owner Jack Roush and Brenda Strickland, who each exited the aircraft following the accident. Both were transported to local hospitals, with Roush in serious but stable condition and Strickland with non-life threatening injuries.
The Raytheon Premier jet, registered to Roush Fenway Racing was split in half during the landing accident, which occurred at about 6:15 p.m.
Jason McDowell, an aviation photographer who was at the airport, tweeted a photo of Roush exiting the plane with a bloody face.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether Roush was flying the plane.
Roush nearly lost his life while piloting a small plane near Troy, Ala., on his 60th birthday on April 19, 2002. He hit a power line and landed upside down in eight feet of water. The longtime NASCAR team owner was not breathing when he was rescued and sustained a broken leg, a collapsed lung and head injuries.
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