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Once passed for publication, all new incident reports submitted via the FIDA pan Europe incident reporting system will be made available on this page.

In the meantime all the 2025/6 reports submitted via the Euro system, and passed for publication before it was shut down, can be found below. Reports submitted via the earlier BHPA online reporting system can also be found below.

This page will slowly include the remaining incident report submitted via the old Euro system.

Unfortunately, whilst all of these reports were successfully imported into the FIDA database by our German colleagues, they failed to include the status of the "publish" field which determines if a report can appear on our website.

As a result around 1,400 old Euro reports have to be reviewed and cross checked before they can be included here. This is a painfully slow process, and is likely to take some time to complete.

All incident reports submitted via the old Euro system, and approved for publication, are however available on our Incident Reports Archive page

Summaries of published incident reports are available for the following wing types:

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You can also search the BHPA incident reports database by incident date, pilot, location, wing type, etc. For example, if you want to search for paraglider incidents at Hay Bluff, select paraglider from the drop down list, and enter Hay Bluff in the search box with the "or" option selected.

To search by incident date, please enter the day, month and year numerically as dd-mm-yyyy (eg. 03-12-2019).

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

There are 288 published incident report summaries for Flexwing Hang Gliders

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 23.09.2026 (F19931)	Pilot Unknown	Location Scottish Gliding Centre, Portmoak, Scotland, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Moyes Gecko Launch Type: winch/vehicle tow	Summary On approach to landing at approximately 5m above the ground, the pilot slowed the glider resulting in the left hand side wing stalling and dropping, the glider turning through 90 degrees. The pilot pushed out to reduce impact speed, releasing the uprights just before impact. The pilot swung through the A-frame, injuring their right arm and shoulder.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder
Date 23.09.2026 (F19972)	Pilot male Age: 63 Rating: P Flying Experience: 9 years 310 flights (30 flights)	Location Portmoak Airfield, Fife, Portmoak, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Avian Puma DXL Launch Type: winch/vehicle tow	Summary During a winch launch, the hang glider pilot commenced the take-off run with residual slack in the towline and prematurely transferred their weight into the glider, causing it to descend onto its basebar wheels and be dragged along the ground. The pilot was unable to operate the tow release while maintaining directional control, and repeated emergency stop instructions transmitted by the tow coach were not heard by the winch operator due to engine noise. The pilot subsequently became airborne and completed the flight without injury or damage to the hang glider.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 06.09.2026 (F19859)	Pilot male Age: 45 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 12 years 101 flights (10 flights)	Location Mendlesham, Mendlesham, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Airwave Calypso Launch Type: winch/vehicle tow	Summary The pilot launched their hang glider from a tow and elected to land when unable to find thermic lift. During the landing approach, the pilot flew the downwind leg too wide and during their base leg was blown beyond the intended landing field, across hedgerows and a road into an adjacent field. With insufficient space to complete the landing, the pilot attempted S-turns to shorten the approach but stalled at approximately 10 ft above the ground and sustained minor injuries.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, hands, arms, shoulder
Date 05.09.2026 (F19885)	Pilot male Age: 53 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 18 years 1000 flights (27 flights)	Location Long Mynd, Long Mynd, Shropshire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Moyes RX Launch Type: foot	Summary On final approach to top land, the pilot became aware of two people packing a paraglider in the hang glider landing area. The pilot manoeuvred to avoid them and the right wingtip of the hang glider contacted the ground.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 15.08.2026 (F19771)	Pilot male Age: 68 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 46 years	Location Hundred House N/NE, Hundred House, Bluith Wells Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Wills Wing T2c Launch Type: foot	Summary A paraglider launched in close proximity to an airborne hang glider, requiring the hang glider pilot to take avoiding action.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 25.07.2026 (F19688)	Pilot male Age: 66 Rating: P Flying Experience: 10 years 564 flights (31 flights)	Location Mendlesham, Mendlesham, Suffolk, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions:, light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Wills Wing T3 Launch Type: winch/vehicle tow	Summary At the end of an XC flight the pilot selected a brown field to land in. Having been turned over, it had large lumps of dry earth. The pilot ran a couple of steps holding the flare on, but they could not keep up with their hang glider and fell. The A-frame was stopped by the rough surface and the pilot went through it, sustaining injury to their wrist on the uneven ground.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder
Date 11.10.2025 (F12970)	Pilot Unknown	Location Sutton Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: hang glider aerotow trolley Launch Type: aero tow	Summary The front right main wheel of an aerotow trolley failed when its steel spindle (previously repaired and reinforced) snapped at the hub shortly after the launched hang glider released the trolley. There were no injuries. Investigation revealed evidence of a long-developing crack that was only detectable by fully removing the wheel assembly. The incident reporter notes that the trolley design is similar to others used in the UK and potentially elsewhere.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 06.08.2025 (F12914)	Pilot male Age: 66 Rating: Incident Pilot Flying Experience: 7 years 90 flights (2 flights)	Location Mendlesham, Ashfield, Suffolk, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Wills Wing Sport 3 Launch Type: winch/vehicle tow	Summary The pilot made a cross wind landing approach which was not corrected in time for an into wind landing. The hang glider impacted the ground and the pilot sustained injury.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder
Date 28.05.2025 (F12849)	Pilot male Age: 38 Rating: P Flying Experience: 14 years 600 flights (20 flights)	Location Tailbridge, Yorkshire Dales, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Avian Puma Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was making a second flight on their new wing. After lift-off, the pilot pulled on speed to to fly away from the hill and brought about pilot-induced oscillations which worsened with increasingly large control inputs, ultimately resulting in a crash 30 seconds later in the bottom landing field, breaking an upright.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 11.05.2025 (F12848)	Pilot male Age: 55 Rating: P Flying Experience: 9 years 126 flights (6 flights)	Location Pandy, Monmouthshire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions:, unknown	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Aeros Discus Launch Type: foot	Summary On landing approach the pilot manoeuvred to avoid power lines and stalled the right wing, causing a sharp turn close to the ground. On landing, the pilot noticed that the VG was still on.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Last updated: 22 October 2026

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