Atlanta, Georgia-based NTSB senior investigator Ralph Hicks held a press conference on Friday at the airport. Hicks said the conditions at the time of the accident were VFR with calm winds. Based on information from surveillance videos, Hicks said the business jet bounced “at least twice before coming down hard on the right main landing gear.” The gear collapsed as a result of the hard impact, but the airplane continued down the runway and through a fence before coming to a stop on Highway 91, about 1,000 feet from the end of the runway, Hicks said. Earnhardt, his wife and one-year-old daughter, and the two pilots were able to evacuate safely before fire engulfed the airplane.