UPDATE: We're learning more about the two experienced pilots who died in a hang-gliding accident Tuesday.

Dade County Coroner Courtney Gross identified one of the pilots as 37-year-old Richard Westmoreland.

In a Facebook post, his father said Westmoreland just returned from flying in Switzerland and planned to spend the winter gliding in New Zealand.

"He loved flying, and there is no shame in dying doing something you love," Jay Westmoreland said in a post.

While the coroner has not identified the second pilot, his father identified him as Tim Glenshaw in a Facebook post. Many have shared posts in his memory, including a video of a flight, posted on YouTube by the Lookout Mountain Flight Park.

An equipment malfunction caused the crash, according to the coroner, and the glider did not

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