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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:

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

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 277 published incident report summaries for Flexwing Hang Gliders

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 27.07.2006 (B4068)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: Novice	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Target Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot flared glider to land before losing speed and climbed to 10-15ft. Pilot sprained ankle on touching down.	Injury Pilot: Spr ankle
Date 01.07.2006 (B4057)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location Mam Tor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Rio Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot made poor approach resulting in the need to S off excess height. Glider stalled and landed heavily.	Injury Unknown
Date 29.06.2006 (B4055)	Pilot Male Age: 61 Rating: P	Location Milk Hill, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Target 160 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot took off in light conditions and lost height making landing field impossible. Tried fly on wall landing but wheels caught on rough ground breaking both uprights and pilots arm.	Injury Pilot: Fr humerus
Date 14.06.2006 (B4043)	Pilot Male	Location West Runton, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Calypso Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot clipped sea defense while on landing approach having misjudged wind gradient. .	Injury Pilot: Fr arm
Date 10.06.2006 (B4039)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Mere Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Elan Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot failed to maintain proper airspeed while on approach having been object fixated by obstacles in landing field.	Injury Pilot: Fr humerus, cheek and knee
Date 05.06.2006 (B4035)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: AP	Location Bo Peep, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Apco Santana Src Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot followed a thermal and left himself too low to complete a safe landing circuit. On finals, a thermal turned the glider 90 degrees and the pilot was forced to crash land into a tree.	Injury Pilot: Fr ribs, bruising
Date 08.05.2006 (B4024)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: CP	Location North Cliff, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Eagle 164 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot mistimed flare and landed heavily having been cut away from aborted winch tow.	Injury Pilot: Bruising
Date 18.03.2006 (B4008)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: CP	Location Mam Tor, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Offpiste Discovery 195 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Whilst monitoring conditions on a windy launch, lone pilot appears to have been ground looped by gust, crashing heavily head first.	Injury Pilot: Concussion, bruising
Date 26.02.2006 (B4004)	Pilot Male Age: 25 Rating: AP	Location Famara, Spain Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Magic Kiss 154 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary HG pilot took off while not clipped in. Hung onto A frame until clear then deployed emergency chute landing on rocky slope.	Injury Pilot: Fr arm, shoulder. concussion
Date 31.01.2006 (B4003)	Pilot Male Age: 29 Rating: Novice	Location Newlyn Downs, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Mars Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student did not reduce speed or flare on landing and glider nosed in.	Injury Pilot: Dislo elbow

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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