{"id":351254,"date":"2026-09-19T18:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T18:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351254\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T18:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T18:38:09","slug":"pilot-found-dead-after-two-planes-crash-mid-air-in-upstate-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351254\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot found dead after two planes crash mid-air in Upstate New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pilot was killed Friday when two glider planes crashed in the air over Upstate New York, police said.A pilot was killed Friday when two glider planes crashed in the air over Upstate New York, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft collided around 2:30 p.m. in Edinburg, a town roughly 20 miles from Saratoga Springs.<\/p>\n<p>One plane landed safely at the nearby Plateau Sky Ranch Airport, while the second crashed in a remote area, according to New York State Police.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.81238938;display:block\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40896832\" width=\"1024\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/wnyt-com-top-stories-sources-141725900.jpg\" alt=\"Sheriff's vehicle and gliders on a grassy field after a collision.\" class=\"wp-image-40896832\"\/>Searchers found a dead pilot after two gliders collided. News Channel 13<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.67320261;display:block\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40896837\" width=\"987\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/reported-edinburg-plane-crash-area-141726309.jpg\" alt=\"A crashed glider plane behind yellow caution tape on a grassy field.\" class=\"wp-image-40896837\"\/>A reported plane crash is pictured in the area of Wheeler Road in Edinburg, Saratoga County. CBS6 Albany\/Youtube<\/p>\n<p>The body of the pilot, who was the only person in the jet and has not been publicly identified, was later found at the crash site.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear what caused the crash. <\/p>\n<p>An investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pilot was killed Friday when two glider planes crashed in the air over Upstate New York, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,9,56,63,65,64,6649,817,58],"class_list":["post-351254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-plane-crashes","tag-upstate-new-york","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}