Rusty criticises airport approach.

Rusty Wallace has revealed his own fears about the approach to the airport that Sunday's ill-fated Hendrick Motorsports flight was bound for when it crashed in dense fog, killing all ten people on board.

The Hendrick owned Beech 200 crashed some seven miles from its destination at Martinsville Airport in the rugged Bull Mountain area near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Among the dead were the brother, son and two nieces of team owner Rick Hendrick as well as the team's engine builder and general manager.

As news of the tragedy filtered out in the minutes after the conclusion of Sunday's Subway 500 at the Martinsville Speedway, few drivers were available for comment as the entire NASCAR Circuit tried to comprehend an event that touches almost everyone in the pitlane.

One driver who did address the media was 1989 Winston Cup Champion Rusty Wallace, himself an experienced pilot and he told of his own concerns about the approach to the airport used by the NASCAR circuit when the series is in town.

Speaking to Speed Channel, Wallace said: "This airport was an airport that I've been worried about for so long, and Talladega's airport because they don't have any good instrument approaches for the amount of traffic that comes in there.

"I'm a pilot with about 9000 hours and I do a lot of flying and Talladega and this place are the two most dangerous approaches on the circuit.

"I was hoping I'd never hear this. We all feel like we've got professional aviation groups but obviously something went majorly wrong and there's no telling what it is."

Hendrick Motorsports have released an official statement and an investigation into the exact cause of the crash is under way.