Warrenville man seriously hurt in glider crash

A 63-year-old man from Warrenville was seriously injured when his motorized glider crashed Saturday morning on a grassy runway in a private airport near Sheridan, authorities said.

The Newark Fire Protection District was called about 9:41 a.m. to the crash at Cushing Field airport, district spokesman David Earl Thompson said. The man was trapped in the open cockpit and had to be freed from the glider, Thompson said. The glider overturned on the runway while landing, the LaSalle County Sheriff's office said in a news release. "There was some heavy extrication involved," Thompson said.

The man was breathing but not conscious; he was taken by helicopter to Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove in critical condition, Thompson said.

The Federal Aviation Administration and the sheriff's office are investigating. An FAA spokeswoman said one person was aboard the small, weight-shift-controlled Light Sport category Revo aircraft made by manufacturer Evolution Trikes. The owner is a man with an address in Virginia, the FAA's online registry shows.