British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association

Incident Reports (Informal)

Incident reports received by the BHPA are available in summary form on this page. If you're looking for reports of formal investigations undertaken in the case of a serious incident, please visit our Incident Reports (formal investigations) page.

Incident reports are available in summary form for the following wing types:

• All Wing Types
• Paraglider
• Flexwing Hang Glider
• Rigid Hang Glider
• Speedrider
• Speedflyer/Miniwing
• Powered PG
• Powered HG
• Other

Incident reports for flexwing hang glider wings are displayed below in summary form.

The BHPA incident reports database is fully searchable. To refine your search you can specify a particular wing type and select "or" or "and". For example, if you want to search for paraglider incidents at Hay Bluff, for best search results select paraglider from the drop down list and the "and" option.

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If known, total hours and total flights flown are displayed below together with hours and flights flown in the past six months, the latter being displayed in brackets.

There are 415 entries for flexwing hang glider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 26.05.2007	Pilot Male Age: 31 Rating: CP	Location Wether Fell, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Sport 2 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot ended up too low for bottom landing area. Chose field that sloped down but into wind. pilot realised he was going to overshoot so went for gap in trees to see power lines on other side. tried to dive under but hit kingpost and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr leg, cut head
Date 20.05.2007	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: CP	Location Long Mynd, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Xc132 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary On running down hill for take off in light conditions, A frame clipped hill and caused glider to nosedive into hill damaging the upright.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 04.05.2007	Pilot Male Age: 61 Rating: Novice	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Target Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Glider went off-line slightly on tow. Student did not release A frame when glider struck ground.	Injury Pilot: Fr humerus
Date 21.04.2007	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: P	Location Deptford, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Litesport 4 Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Pilot jumped into glider on aerotow launch then stalled a wing as he pushed out to prevent dropping. Locked out at low level and crashed in vertically.	Injury Pilot: Fr clavicles
Date 18.04.2007	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location Wether Fell, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Breeze Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and struck wall on landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist, cuts to head, damaged shoulder
Date 16.04.2007	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: Novice	Location Swanborough, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airbourne Fun 190 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student came in to land too slowly and mushed in on wheels causing break to arm.	Injury Pilot: Fr arm
Date 14.04.2007	Pilot Male Rating: P	Location White Mountain, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Magic 4 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Change of wind direction forced pilot to go for bottom landing field that was in rotor. Pilot landed heavily from 50ft.	Injury Pilot: Fr arm
Date 21.03.2007	Pilot Male Age: 71 Rating: CP	Location Combe Gibbet, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Discovery 195	Summary Pilot was thrown over backwards while rigging hang glider in breezy conditions. Glider blew back damaging another wing and a car.	Injury Pilot: Concussion , bruising
Date 01.02.2007	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: CP	Location Woldingham, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Elan Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot crashed into tree having been lifted off hill in rotory conditions with one wing stalled.	Injury Unknown
Date 14.01.2007	Pilot Male Age: 63 Rating: AP	Location Mala, Spain Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Scandal Xk Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary HG pilot had mid-air with PG trainee while ridge soaring/thermalling.	Injury Unknown

Last updated: 12 December 2024

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