Family members and supporters gather with Clark County rescue personnel along S. Las Vegas Blvd. and Sloan Road following a glider crash with the death of an 11-year-old boy south of there on Friday, March, 27, 2015.
Saturday, March 28, 2015 | 12:52 p.m.
The 11-year-old boy and 55-year-old man who died Friday after a hang gliding accident on a dry lake bed near Jean have been identified as Arys Thoring Moorhead and John Kelly Harrison by the Clark County Coroner's Office.
Thoring, of Farmington, N.M., was in the air with Harrison, an experienced hang gliding instructor from Kamuela, Hawaii, when the hang glider crashed on a dry lake bed east of State Route 64 about 2:50 p.m., Metro Police said.
The hang glider was tethered to a tow vehicle when it fell from the sky for unknown reasons, police said.
Harrison was pronounced dead at the scene.
Members of the hang gliding team were trying to transport the boy to Las Vegas when they came across a Nevada Highway Patrol trooper near Sloan Road and Las Vegas Boulevard South, NHP Trooper Loy Hixson said.
The trooper tried to give the boy medical attention, arriving medical personnel pronounced the boy dead, Hixson said.
The incident remains under investigation, and the Federal Aviation Administration has been notified.
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