R.I.P.
NASCAR Exec's Husband Dead in Plane Crash

NASCAR officials have confirmed that the husband of International Speedway Corp. President Lesa France Kennedy, plastic surgeon Dr. Bruce Kennedy, died today when a plane he was piloting crashed in Florida.
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Fire Chief Gerard Ransom of Sanford, Fla. has confirmed at least four other passengers were killed -- including two children.

Kennedy was piloting the twin-engine Cessna 310 aircraft when it went down about 8:40 AM ET. The plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Daytona International Airport.

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1. So sad. Feel bad for the 10 y.o. on the ground too. had 3rd degree burns over 90 percent of his body

Posted at 2:13PM on Jul 10th 2007 by debbie

2. God Bless them!

Posted at 2:27PM on Jul 10th 2007 by JG

3. Live in the fast lane, die in the fast lane. I hope he will be forgiven for taking additional lives. God be with them.

Posted at 2:33PM on Jul 10th 2007 by Jiggy

4. First its Lesea's dad and know her husband in the short span of three weeks! My heart goes out to her!

Posted at 2:33PM on Jul 10th 2007 by SoCalRaceGirl

5. I send my thoughts and condolences to those who died and those who have lost.

Sadly this is another black eye for general aviation, their has been a rash of incidents
involving the Cessna 310.

Posted at 2:35PM on Jul 10th 2007 by BOEING 787-8 now 677 ORDERS

6. Lisa - if you look at different news sources, everyone has a different story, some say four, others say five, some say five from the plane, others say two, etc. Why don't you take it down a notch, or get on the scene and report for yourself.

Posted at 2:35PM on Jul 10th 2007 by Jerk.

7. Your story is wrong. Five people are confirmed dead, but only two were in the plane. The other three were in the home the plane crashed into. The husband of Lesa France Kennedy was in the plane and is confirmed dead. It has been reported the pilot was male and the passenger was female, but still unidentified. The male pilot is believed to be Dr. Kennedy.
The dead on the ground are two children and one adult. A third child was taken to the hospital with third degree burns over 80 to 90 percent of his body.

Please, when something is life or death, please try to get the story right.

Posted at 2:36PM on Jul 10th 2007 by Lisa

8. I live in Sanford and feel so sad for all the people involved....especially for the loss of the children. I hope the little boy who was burned so badly survives but his family has been destroyed .... poor little boy.

It is just a horrifying situation for everybody and the people of Sanford feel deep sorrow for this tradgedy. We will be reaching out to all the families involved. So many lives were changed today ....we will go on but those poor people's lives have changed forever.

Posted at 2:39PM on Jul 10th 2007 by Molly

9. Headlines like this make me sick. Some pitiful kids died and got burned during this incident and all that will be on the news is a bit about the Nascar husband. So sad.

Posted at 2:43PM on Jul 10th 2007 by Rosebud

10. Wow, pretty awful. Prayers for the little boy, he must be suffering terribly.

Posted at 2:45PM on Jul 10th 2007 by Boss

11. As a Nascar insider, let me try to clear this us up. (Your sentence structure should have been corrected before going to college.) The individual who they are confirming at this time was

A. The pilot of the plane
B. Dr. Bruce Kennedy (that is his name)
C. Husband to Lesa France Kennedy. (If you are a Nascar fan, you know who she is...if you are NOT a Nascar fan, then you probably don't care and that information is irrelevant)

Lesa's father recently passed away as well.

There ARE others that were on the plane that have perished, but the names have not been released most likely because they are waiting for family notification.

Moreover, there were a few people ON THE GROUND who were ALSO injured...a couple of them fatally. (The numbers have not been verified at this time.)

Your very first (run-on) sentence made it sound like 3 different people. Punctuation boys and girls, punctuation.

Posted at 3:00PM on Jul 10th 2007 by twistedvixen

12. my sympathy to the familys... how awful,... rest in peace ...

Posted at 3:00PM on Jul 10th 2007 by monique

13. I remember years ago before all of your times I would expect when a Cessna hit a commercial jet landing in San Diego. The jet went down in a large residentiall area. It was major ugly and sad. It was totally the Cessnas fault. Many lives were lost that day. It was a PSA jet that put them out of business. Sad.

Posted at 3:11PM on Jul 10th 2007 by Lori

14. ***To "TWISTED V." ...There was only ONE other person on the plane besides Dr. Kennedy.

Sometimes accurately reporting the facts is more important than proper punctuation, boys and girls!!!

Posted at 3:16PM on Jul 10th 2007 by noitall

15. Who cares about this dirtbag creep plastic surgeon?

His plane dropped on INNOCENT PEOPLE who were in their homes

If this self-important jackass wasn't using a plane instead of a CAR (or a COMMERCIAL AIRLINE) this wouldn't have happened!

Posted at 3:41PM on Jul 10th 2007 by beth

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