Lubon says the glider nose-dived to the ground and flipped, killing the pilot. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) identified the aircraft as a Schleicher ASH 26 glider. FAA says only the ...

A pilot and passenger miraculously escaped without any major injuries after their light aircraft crashed onto a busy road. The pair's powered glider 'stalled and nose dived' onto the A419 in ...

A glider pilot died in a crash after his tow-rope became detached from another aircraft during take-off ... into a spin before hitting the ground “nose first”. The Air Accidents Investigation ...

A pilot who narrowly survived a terrifying air crash after his glider nose dived into the ground ... Christopher Tooze, 70, was in the cockpit when his aircraft smashed into a road near an ...

The aircraft’s nose cone moves forward to reveal the propeller ... on the airframe and 134 hours on its Rotax 914 engine. The glider’s avionics include a Garmin Aera 660 GPS, Becker radio ...

Oliver Summerill, 21, died of injuries to his head, neck and chest after his glider crashed nose first into a field ... the electrical systems on his aircraft. The initial stages of the take ...

The elevator controlled "pitch," or the plane's nose-up/nose-down orientation ... With an earlier glider, banking a turn would sometimes cause the aircraft to spin out of control.

The launching process is aided with the help of a couple of willing volunteers who will pull the glider into position on the runway, then grab the tow rope and attach it to the nose of the glider.

around 4:15 p.m. for a report of a small glider aircraft that crashed in the woods near Chester Airport. Troopers located the single engine ultralight glider in the woods and identified the pilot ...

Up in the two-seater, engineless aircraft with ... the pilot to point the nose left or right.” But before you can even think about gripping the controls, a glider must be launched into the ...