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A small jet carrying the owner of NASCAR's top team and his wife has lost its brakes and crash landed at a Key West, Florida airport.

A small jet carrying the owner of NASCAR's top team and his wife lost its brakes and crash landed at a Key West, Florida airport on Monday evening, but no one was seriously injured.

Authorities said the Gulfstream 150 aircraft carrying Rick and Linda Hendrick ran off the runway at the Key West International Airport at 7.45pm local time.

The Hendricks, a pilot and co-pilot were all taken to Lower Keys Medical Centre.

Two suffered minor injuries, though it wasnot clear who.

Two others on board were taken to the hospital as a precaution.

The plane is registered to Jimmie Johnson Racing II Incorporated in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Johnson is a five-time defending NASCAR champion and drives for Hendrick Motorsports.

Hendrick owns the race team.

Besides Johnson, he also fields cars for four-time champion Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr and Mark Martin.