NASCAR owner in serious condition after plane crash
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}DETROIT (Reuters) - NASCAR team owner Jack Roush was in serious but stable condition one day after a business jet he was piloting crash-landed at an airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, his spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
"None of his injuries are life-threatening," Lori Halbeisen said.
The crash occurred at Wittman Regional Airport around 7:15 p.m. EDT (2315 GMT) on Tuesday, according to a statement from Roush Fenway Racing, which Roush owns with John Henry, the owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball team.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Roush, who had been set to attend the annual EAA AirVenture show in Oshkosh, walked away from the accident, Halbeisen said.
He was taken to a hospital and was listed in stable condition, according to the racing team and EAA Aviation Center.
A passenger in the Hawker Beechcraft Premier jet, Brenda Strickland, also suffered non-life threatening injuries.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The National Transportation Safety Board was investigating the accident.
An experienced pilot who owns three planes, Roush suffered serious injuries in a plane crash in Alabama in 2002, when the aircraft he was flying crashed into a lake.
Roush, 68, began his career in 1964 as an engineer for Ford Motor Co. He formed Jack Roush Performance Engineering, a precursor of Roush Industries, in 1976 and Roush Racing in 1988. Henry's Fenway Sports Group bought a 50-percent stake in the race team in 2007.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Roush Fenway Racing operates eight motorsports teams, including such drivers as Matt Kenseth, Greg Biffle and Carl Edwards in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
(Reporting by Ben Klayman; Editing by Xavier Briand)