Former NASCAR star Greg Biffle and his family were killed as an airplane they were on crashed and burst into flames at a North Carolina airport

The NTSB said the investigation into what caused the crash that killed NASCAR legend Greg Biffle may be lengthy but the plane's black box has been recovered.

Cathy Grossu, the mother-in-law of retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, said she had seen the family a day before the fatal crash.

A small plane crashed while landing at the Statesville Regional Airport in North Carolina on Thursday morning, officials said.

President Donald Trump on Friday remembered former NASCAR star Greg Biffle as a "great young man" after he and his family members were among the seven killed in a plane crash.

A private Cessna jet crashed and caught fire at a North Carolina airport, killing multiple people, authorities said.

Biffle, his wife and two children and three others were killed in a small plane crash in North Carolina, the families confirmed Thursday.

The U.S. government has conceded failures on the part of pilots and an air traffic controller at Reagan National Airport that led to the deadly mid-air crash in January.