{"id":177799,"date":"2019-08-15T16:34:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T21:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=177799"},"modified":"2019-08-15T16:49:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T21:49:48","slug":"dale-earnhardt-jr-family-hospitalized-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=177799","title":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt, Jr., family hospitalized, plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-120337\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EarnhardtDaleJr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"157\" \/>ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (AP) \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/08\/15\/us\/dale-earnhardt-jr-plane-incident\/index.html\"> Dale Earnhardt Jr. was taken to a hospital after his plane crashed in east Tennessee.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NASCAR television analyst and former driver&#8217;s sister, Kelley Earnhardt Miller, tweeted that &#8220;everyone is safe and has been taken to the hospital for further evaluation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Federal Aviation Administration officials said a Cessna Citation rolled off the end of a runway and caught fire after landing at Elizabethton Municipal Airport at 3:40 p.m. Thursday. FAA officials said the preliminary indication is that two pilots and three passengers were aboard.<\/p>\n<p>Carter County Sheriff&#8217;s Office spokesman Thomas Gray confirmed Earnhardt was aboard but said he wasn&#8217;t one of the pilots.<\/p>\n<p>Earnhardt retired as a full-time racer in 2017 and has been working as an analyst for NBC. He is part of the scheduled broadcast team for Saturday night&#8217;s Cup Series event in Bristol, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Dale Earnhardt Jr. was taken to a hospital after his plane crashed in east Tennessee. The NASCAR television analyst and former driver&#8217;s sister, Kelley Earnhardt Miller, tweeted that &#8220;everyone is safe and has been taken to the hospital for further evaluation.&#8221; Federal Aviation Administration officials said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177810,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177799\/revisions\/177810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}