{"id":678832,"date":"2026-05-19T03:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678832\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T03:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:30:08","slug":"pilot-dead-after-glider-crash-northeast-of-edmonton-rcmp-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678832\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot dead after glider crash northeast of Edmonton: RCMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A pilot was killed when a glider crashed northeast of Edmonton on Monday afternoon and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is now investigating, according to the RCMP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mounties from the Fort Saskatchewan RCMP detachment were called to respond to a glider crash in Lamont County at 3:10 p.m. Police said the pilot was declared dead at the scene when officers arrived. They said there were no other victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police did not provide further details about the pilot who died or where in Lamont County the crash occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a news release, the TSB said the glider that crashed is a \u201ca privately registered Schleicher ASW 20.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The agency said it has deployed a team of investigators to the crash site to look into what happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pilot was killed when a glider crashed northeast of Edmonton on Monday afternoon and the Transportation Safety&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752,249406,249407,920,215860],"class_list":["post-678832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton","tag-glider-crash","tag-lamont-county","tag-rcmp","tag-transportation-safety-board-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}