NTSB Preliminary Report Released On Greg Biffle Plane Crash

The National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report into the plane crash that killed former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his family and three others determined that Biffle was not flying the plane owned by his GB Aviation Leasing LLC company when it crashed on Dec. 18.

Per the report released Friday, the plane was flown by Dennis Dutton, a pilot certified to operate numerous commercial aircraft, with his son Jack, in the right cockpit seat. Biffle, a licensed pilot with “civil flight experience that included over 3,500 hours of flight time,” was seated behind the two and is identified as the rear passenger in the report.

However, neither Biffle nor Jack Dutton were licensed to fly the Cessna Citation. The report notes that Dennis Dutton was licensed to fly the Citation with a second-in-command on board, and even though Jack Dutton was a pilot himself, he “was not qualified to perform second in command duties for the flight,” according to the NTSB, as he had just over 175 hours of single-engine aircraft experience.

See the report, the clues, the questions. How much was Greg involved? Were there clues from the beginning?