NASCAR team owner Jack Roush was in serious but stable condition after walking away from a plane crash in Oshkosh, Wisconsin at 6:15 p.m. (CST) on Tuesday night.
Video showed Roush and another passenger, identified by the Experimental Aircraft Association as Brenda Strickland of Plymouth, Michigan, walking away from the crash. Roush, an aviation buff, was attending the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual Air Venture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, this week.
“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.” Smith confirmed that the plane belonged to Roush, and he was flying it. Smith said Roush’s injuries include facial lacerations.
It is the second close call for Roush, who crashed a plane into a pond in Alabama in 2002, nearly drowning before being rescued by an ex-Marine who lived nearby. Despite serious injuries in the 2002 incident, Roush continued flying.
Incidents of this nature are not new for the EAA Air Venture. Each year Air Venture brings in about 10,000 planes from around the world, increasing the risk of a crash by five times. Since 2000, there have been 59 crashes associated with the event—with at least one resulting in a death each year.
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