A Spade resident is dead after a glider crash on Wednesday morning.

Fifty-two year-old Bryne Long was piloting a glider in Littlefield. The glider crashed near the Littlefield Municipal Airport at around 9 a.m. Wednesday.

Texas DPS has only released Long’s name, but no other information regarding the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the incident.

Two people died in March of 2013 in another glider crash near the same airfield.

We’ll bring you more on this story as it develops.

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