{"id":400616,"date":"2026-08-07T22:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400616\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:06:11","slug":"pilot-dies-in-burnet-county-glider-crash-50-miles-northwest-of-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400616\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot dies in Burnet County glider crash 50 miles northwest of Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pilot is dead after the glider they were flying crashed Thursday afternoon in\u00a0Burnet County.<\/p>\n<p>The glider crashed around 3:50 p.m. Thursday along County Road 210 near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/news\/history\/2022\/08\/15\/catch-a-train-a-show-or-a-night-in-historic-bertram-texas\/65397573007\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bertram<\/a>, about 50 miles northwest of downtown Austin, according to Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Sgt. Billy Ray. The pilot of the unpowered aircraft was pronounced dead at the scene, Ray said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have not publicly identified the pilot.<\/p>\n<p>The National Transportation Safety Board on Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NTSB_Newsroom\/status\/2085720502962721180?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">confirmed it is investigating the crash<\/a>, which the board said involved a PZL-Bielsko B1-PW-5 glider. Other details about the crash, including what may have led to it, were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>The location of the crash is near a gliderport owned by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faultlineflyers.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fault Line Flyers Glider Club<\/a>, though it was unclear Friday whether the crash involved its members or club activities. Club officers did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cci_tagline_name\" title=\"CCI Tagline Name\">This is a developing story. Please check back for more.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pilot is dead after the glider they were flying crashed Thursday afternoon in\u00a0Burnet County. The glider crashed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-400616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}