MACKAY, Idaho (AP) - Searchers say the pilot of a glider that crashed in central Idaho has been found dead.
The pilot, 78-year-old Thierry Thys of Oakland, Calif., was found in the wreckage of his motorglider aircraft on Friday morning.
His plane went missing Wednesday.
A Custer County Search and Rescue team reached the crash site at about 11:21 a.m.
Thys, an experienced pilot who had made many long-distance flights, had been flying a motorized 1998 Stemme S10-VT.
In 2003, Thys and a friend flew in a motorized glider from Carson City, Nev., to the southern tip of South America and back to Nevada.
During the previous summer, the two flew from Carson City to Point Barrow, Alaska and back to Nevada.
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Information from: KTVB-TV, http://www.ktvb.com/