Glider crashes through tarp at Homestead nursery, pilot survives

A single-person glider plane made a crash landing Tuesday morning inside a nursery in deep Southwest Miami-Dade.

The pilot was checked and released, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.

The plane broke through the tarps at United Nursery, near Southwest 217th Avenue and 312th Street in Homestead at about 11 a.m.

It was not clear what caused the glider to go down.

This story was originally published June 14, 2016 at 8:53 PM with the headline "Glider crashes through tarp at Homestead nursery, pilot survives."