A part owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks was in the Hawker. I saw the article in the Arizona Republic. Here's a link to the article. It sounds even more harrowing than the photo suggests:

http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news...crash0831.html

As far as hitting gliders, I flew F-16's in Germany in 90-91. Gliders at that time were much more prevelant there than anywhere else I've seen. I used to call them barrage-gliders and had many "near-hits" (as there's no such thing as a near-miss eh?). In the summer of 90 we had one of our jets hit a glider and kill the glider pilot. The F-16 sustained severe damages but the engine ran long enough to get the jet on the ground. Back then we typically cruised all over Germany at 420-480KCAS so you didn't get much warning. As you probably already know, gliders are virtually invisible to radar.