NASCAR verbally has agreed to a settlement in the death of a pilot killed when a company plane crashed in central Florida last year, a newspaper reported yesterday.

A handwritten document in the court file of NASCAR pilot Michael Klemm noted a $2.4 million "wrongful death claim approved," according to records viewed by The Daytona Beach News-Journal this week before they were sealed.

Klemm and Dr. Bruce Kennedy, husband of International Speedway Corp. President Lesa France Kennedy, died when their twin-engine plane crashed into this suburban Orlando neighborhood July 10, 2007. The crash ignited a blaze that killed three people in two houses.

NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston said he did not know details of the settlement. The attorney for Klemm's widow, Eric Latinsky, and three sons told the newspaper that they and NASCAR officials had agreed to keep the settlement confidential.

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