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:

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• Paraglider
• Flexwing Hang Glider
• Rigid Hang Glider
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• Speedflyer/Miniwing
• Powered PG
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• Other

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

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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 417 entries for flexwing hang glider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
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
Date 05.05.2002	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location Monks Down, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Magic Iv Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot misjudged wind strength on landing approach which resulted in his landing approach being too far back behind landing field. He narrowly avoided a collision with a barbed wire fence.	Injury Unknown
Date 25.04.2002	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: P	Location Shinning Tor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Amour159 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Following a short xc flight the pilot misjudged his approach into a field clipping the roof of a barn on his final turn into wind. The glider rotated left and then inverted.	Injury Pilot: Sprained left wrist bruised hip
Date 20.04.2002	Pilot Female Age: 42 Rating: AP	Location Darley Mook, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Fly 2 Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary During a tandem aerotow launch turbulence caused the weak link to break. The pilot flew a downwind leg followed by an attempt to turn into wind. With insufficient height to complete the turn the pilot landed cross wind, hitting a fence.	Injury Pilot: Sore back
Date 13.04.2002	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location Harting, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Magic 4 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot failed to unzip his harness during landing approach. Landed fully zipped up with 2mph ground speed which caused the nose to drop.	Injury Unknown
Date 13.04.2002	Pilot Unknown	Location Harting, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Breeze Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot seen to be flying close to the stall with insufficient altitude.	Injury Unknown
Date 03.04.2002	Pilot Male	Location Dorset Coast 2m West Durdle Door. Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider	Summary No details.	Injury Pilot: Fr lower back
Date 01.04.2002	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: CP	Location Drayton St Leonard, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Rumour 1 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary During a tow launch the line broke whilst the glider was at a height of 1500ft. The pilot released the line which fell onto nearby pwer lines. A vehicle drove over the line draggin it over the power lines which broke.	Injury Unknown
Date 25.03.2002	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: P	Location Leadlich, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Air Atos Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Following a xc flight the pilot misjudged the wind direction on landing resulting in a downwind landing.	Injury Pilot: Broken right anke: fibula; didnt go hospital for 2 days as thought it was just sprained

Last updated: 14 June 2025

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