Police said about 2:50 p.m. they responded to a call concerning an accident, which occurred at Jean Lake, a small dry lake located about three miles east of Jean.
According to police, one of the victims is an 11-year-old boy.
Police said the child and an unidentified pilot were in a glider that was being towed by a truck. The driver of the truck, police said, thought the pair in the glider had been released and made a turn. However, the pair was still tethered to the truck and crashed.
"The glider was supposed to release the tether from the truck itself. Apparently, that tether release did not occur. So what occurred is when the truck turned around thinking the tether was released, the glider itself plummeted straight to the ground," said Capt. Peter Boffelli with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
The driver of the truck took the boy from the scene for help.
"There was an attempt at resuscitation here on the side of the road, but they were not successful," Boffelli said.
The FAA is aware of the crash, but because the accident involved a motorized vehicle towing a non-motorized glider, Metro is the lead investigating agency.
The Clark County Coroner's Office has identified the pilot as 55 year-old John Harrison of Kamuela, HI. The young boy has been identified as 11-year-old Aryas Moorhead, of Farmington, NM.
Police said that Harrison was an experienced pilot and instructor who was doing a tandem glide with Moorhead when the hang glider crashed into the Jean dry lake bed east of State Route 604, near mile marker nine.
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