A 74-year-old man from Minden died Sunday after his AMS Carat Model A Power Glider crashed in the Pinenut Mountain Range.
At 2:50 p.m. on August 7, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office was notified by the Nevada Highway Patrol of an aircraft Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) notification. From the air, the Nevada Civil Air Patrol and U.S. Air Force located a crashed glider approximately eight miles east of the Minden Tahoe Airport.
