Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and his family survived a serious crash incident at Elizabethton Municipal Airport when their Cessna Citation Latitude overran runway 24 and burst into flames.

The 44-year-old retired race car driver escaped the incident in Bristol, Tennessee without serious injury, as did his wife, infant daughter, the two pilots and a dog.

The passengers managed to get out before the twinjet went through a fence and caught ablaze, before finally coming to rest 500 feet past the paved end of the runway.