{"id":353264,"date":"2026-09-22T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T07:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353264\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T07:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T07:00:29","slug":"pilot-killed-in-upstate-new-york-midair-glider-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353264\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot Killed in Upstate New York Midair Glider Collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-kserv-preview=\"\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Federal officials are investigating a midair collision between two gliders in upstate New York that killed one of the pilots. The accident happened Friday around 3:15 p.m. EDT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York State Police have identified the dead pilot as James Morzillo, 80, of Saratoga Springs, New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CREATE A FREE ACCOUNT<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up to keep reading<\/p>\n<p class=\"kserv-gate__simple-message\">Create a free account to continue. Already a member? Sign in below.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tDismiss<\/p>\n<p>CREATE A FREE ACCOUNT<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up to keep reading<\/p>\n<p class=\"kserv-gate__simple-message\">Create a free account to continue. Already a member? Sign in below.<\/p>\n<p>OUT OF FREE ARTICLES<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou&#8217;ve used your free articles<\/p>\n<p class=\"kserv-gate__simple-message\">You&#8217;ve read all of your free articles for now. Subscribe for unlimited access to every story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal officials are investigating a midair collision between two gliders in upstate New York that killed one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49971,131750,131751,131752,9,11,10,49,51,50,747,70794,817],"class_list":["post-353264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-aviation-news","tag-glider","tag-midair","tag-midair-collision","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-new-york-state-police","tag-pilots","tag-upstate-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353264","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=353264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}