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As Jack Roush, co-owner of NASCAR's Roush Fenway Racing team, remained hospitalized Wednesday in serious but stable condition, under observation for facial injuries, photos of his airplane's crash landing Tuesday evening have emerged.

TMZ published a gallery of photos, including one showing Roush's jet veering horribly sideways just a few feet above the ground and another as the plane hits the ground and the fuselage begins to break.

Roush, 68, a longtime pilot, was attempting to land his Hawker Beechcraft Premier business jet at the Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisc., for the AirVenture Fly-In when the plane crashed on the runway.

Roush and his only passenger, Brenda Strickland, were able to walk out of the badly damaged aircraft with assistance before being transported to a local hospital.

A statement from the Roush Fenway team Tuesday night said Roush was in stable condition, with Roush Fenway president Geoff Smith telling the Associated Press that "There are injuries. Possible surgery.'' Strickland was treated and released Wednesday afternoon.

Roush also survived an airplane crash in 2002 in Alabama and issued a release Wednesday thanking people for "the outpouring of support and well wishes.'' NASCAR and Ford Motor Company issued statements Wednesday offering their support for someone, Ford called, "an icon" in racing.

 

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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- NASCAR team owner Jack Roush is in serious but stable condition after walking away from a plane crash in a jet he was piloting in Wisconsin on Tuesday.

"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."

Video taken in the immediate aftermath of the crash shows a fireman spraying foam around the plane, then opening the forward door and peering in. A few moments later, Roush, his face bloodied and blood stains covering his shirt and pants, gingerly walks through the opening.

A backboard is brought up as Roush lies down next to the plane. Meanwhile, his lone passenger, identified as Brenda Strickland, also gingerly makes her way out of the plane on her feet, assisted by rescuers.

Roush, an aviation buff, was expected to attend the Experimental Aircraft Association's annual AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis., this week.

 

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