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Pilot Dies After Glider Crashes on Peñalara’s Segovian Slope

The crash triggered a coordinated mountain search by emergency teams from both regions near the border.

Overview

  • Madrid’s 112 center received the first alert at 18:39, and the GERA rescue unit located the wreck roughly 45 minutes later.
  • Rescuers found the pilot, the only person on board, deceased on the Segovian side of the Sierra de Guadarrama peak.
  • Authorities reported that the aircraft was a non-motorized glider.
  • GREIM units airlifted the body to the Manzanares El Real helipad before transfer to the Segovia forensic institute.
  • Both Madrid 112 and Castilla y León 112 logged calls due to the site being about three kilometers from the Madrid boundary, and no cause has been released.