Multiple people were killed when a plane crashed at the Statesville Regional Airport in rural North Carolina on Thursday morning, erupting into a large fire on the runway, according to the Associated Press.

Former racecar driver Greg Biffle and members of his family were among seven people who died in a plane crash Thursday in North Carolina, state police said.

Using his personal helicopter, he helped deliver food, water, medical supplies and communications equipment to remote mountain communities cut off by washed-out roads, chronicling much of it on social...