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 23.06.2002	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: CP	Location Woolacombe, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Xtralite Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details.	Injury Pilot: Concussion, bruises, cut lip & tongue and chipped tooth
Date 20.06.2002	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location Kimmeridge, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Magic 4 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Following launch the pilot was unable to assume the prone position in the harness. Upon later inspection he discovered that the internal harness chord had broken.	Injury Unknown
Date 04.06.2002	Pilot Male Age: 27	Location Constitution Hill, Aberystwyth, UK	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider	Summary Report received from AAIB of hang glider crash.	Injury Pilot: Uspecified
Date 01.06.2002	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: P	Location Mont Sarha, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Icaro Atos Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Illegible - can only glean that pilot misjudged landing approach which resulted in a crash.	Injury Pilot: Broken ulnar- l cracked humerus- r ambulance to huddersfield hospital
Date 31.05.2002	Pilot Male Age: 52	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Icaro Mars Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student pushed out during tow launch causing the gliders left wing to stall, the glider turned and the left wing tip hit the ground.	Injury Pilot: Bruised right leg anmd shoulder
Date 12.05.2002	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: P	Location Thornhill, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Scandal Xkr Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Pilot misjudged landing approach and undershot the intended landing field. He collided with a tall bush resulting in the glider sustaining structural damage.	Injury Unknown
Date 11.05.2002	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: AP	Location Bradwell Edge, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Icaro 2000	Summary Pilot approaching top landing field misjudged windstrength and made his final turn too low leaving insufficient height to clear a wall at the downwind end of the field. The pilot landed cross wind behind the wall.	Injury Unknown
Date 11.05.2002	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: CP	Location West Firle, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Swing Mistral 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot performing 360 degree turns whilst low. During one turn the glider encountered sinking air with the result that he was unable to complete the turn, the pilot impacted the hill.	Injury Pilot: Cracked/fractured l1 vertibrae
Date 05.05.2002	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: P	Location Corndon, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: La Mouette- Topless 1	Summary Following a xc flight the pilot misjudged the wind direction which resulted in a downwind landing. The glider landed on its wheels then ground looped.	Injury Unknown
Date 05.05.2002	Pilot Unknown	Location Monks Down, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Scandal Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Unknown

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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