(TNND) — Moments before a plane crash that killed NASCAR champion Greg Biffle and his family, his wife sent a message to her mother warning of trouble.
People Magazine said Cristina Biffle texted her mother Cathy Grossu moments before the plane crash saying, “we’re in trouble.”
“She texted me from the plane and she said, ‘We’re in trouble.’ And that was it,” Grossu told People. crying. “So we’re devastated. We’re brokenhearted.”
Seven people were killed in the crash, including Greg and Cristina, their son Ryder, Greg’s daughter Emma; Dennis Dutton and his son Jack; and Craig Wadsworth. The group was headed to Florida to celebrate a birthday trip.
“To think that they would be killed on a birthday trip, that was just such a fun time for the family,” she says. “And to see the horrific way that it ended, it’s just, it is so hard to bear. I cannot believe they’re gone.”
The Biffles had visited Grossu at her home the day before the crash.
“I don’t remember what the last words that I said to my daughter or to Greg or to my precious Ryder,” she told People. “I don’t remember. I know we hugged, but I don’t remember those last words and that’s going to haunt me. But they were happy.”
It’s not yet known what caused the crash at a North Carolina airport. Federal investigators are starting to investigate the scene on Friday.
Greg “The Biff” Biffle was born in Vancouver, Washington, and began his racing career driving on short tracks around the Pacific Northwest before making his NASCAR debut in 1996. Biffle won both the 2000 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship and the 2002 NASCAR Busch Series championship, making him the first driver to win both titles.
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Biffle raced in the NASCAR Cup Series from 2003 to 2016. He won 19 races and achieved a second-place finish in the 2005 season.
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