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NASCAR: Hendrick team plane makes emergency landing
A Hendrick Motorsports airplane was forced to make an emergency landing early Monday morning in Memphis, Tenn., when smoke was detected in the cabin.
North Carolina TV station WRAL reports that the plane was returning to the team's base in North Carolina from Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup race in Las Vegas and made a fuel stop in Oklahoma before being forced to land at Memphis International Airport.
Team spokesman Jesse Essex told the station there were no injuries and that no Hendrick race drivers had been aboard the aircraft.
The incident was an eerie echo of the tragedy that struck the Hendrick team in 2004, when 10 people died in the crash of a team plane that was traveling to a race in Virginia. Rick Hendrick's son, brother and twin nieces died in that crash, along with Hendrick employees.
Click here to read the full WRAL report of the incident.
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