Songdo light aircraft crash
ULM powered hang glider · Centre-of-gravity error
From Dongchun-dong to Dongchun-dong
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
ULM powered hang glider
- Aircraft type
- Ulm POWERED HANG GLIDER
- Category
- Weight-Shift · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- Unknown
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- 2
- Route
- From Dongchun-dongTo Dongchun-dong
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The Songdo light aircraft crash was an accident on 13 June 2012 in which a light aircraft crashed in Songdo, Incheon, killing both people on board, including the pilot and a passenger.
The aircraft involved was a powered hang glider produced in France, with a wingspan of 5 m, a speed of over 100 km per hour and a safe flight height of 150 m. It was revealed that it had undergone a safety inspection. The cause of the accident was found to be that the aircraft lost its balance and crashed while attempting to fly. That is, it plunged downward only 9 minutes after take-off. The Aviation and Railway Investigation Committee said that there was no defect in the airframe, but that because the wings are light it is affected by the wind. In addition, the pilot held a licence and the flight location was classified as airspace where flight is possible without flight approval, so there was no legal problem.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Korean Wikipedia article “송도 경비행기 추락 사고” (revision 39278602, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Korean Wikipedia article: 송도 경비행기 추락 사고
- Article
- 송도 경비행기 추락 사고
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 39278602 · 2025-04-16 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q12602854
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- ko Wikipedia article "송도 경비행기 추락 사고" (page 880834, revision 39278602), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): A licensed pilot and one passenger in a powered hang glider, an ultralight flown recreationally: general aviation. The article: "The aircraft involved was a powered hang glider produced in France"
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Korean Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.