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Incident Reports (FIDA)

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:

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).

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 21.01.2006 (B3999)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location Bradwell, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Java Comp Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot got tangled in harness on poor approach then caught A frame on rough ground just before flaring. .	Injury Pilot: Dislo shoulder

Date 15.01.2006 (B3997)	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: Under training	Location Ontur, Spain Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Sport 2 Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Pilot failed to properly correct a turn having released from the aerotow line at 100ft and crashed at speed.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.

Date 13.11.2005 (B3989)	Pilot Male Rating: CP	Location North Hill, Minehead, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Eagle Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot landed heavily on light wind landing but did not let go of the uprights breaking both arms.	Injury Pilot: Fr arms

Date 20.10.2005 (B3986)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: CP	Location Ontur, Spain Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Eagle Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Pilot locked out on aerotow and crashed into hangar.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist, concusion

Date 25.09.2005 (B3980)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: AP	Location Unknown	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Litespeed S 4.5	Summary During inspection piot discovered damaged carbon spar caused as a result of manufacturing error.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 01.09.2005 (B3970)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: AP	Location UK	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Concept	Summary Glider was found to have been miss-rigged after having been independently serviced.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 30.08.2005 (B3969)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: AP	Location Wind Bank, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Litespeed S 4.5 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot landed in trees having misjudged turn.	Injury Pilot: Cut leg

Date 16.07.2005 (B3948)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: P	Location Smeatharpe, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Sx3 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot crashed on tow after guillotined winch line caught on base bar then fence. .	Injury Pilot: Fr arm, bruising, grazes

Date 12.07.2005 (B3945)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: P	Location Smeatharpe, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Extralite 137 Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Pilot pushed out on aerotow launch. Glider dropped wing and nosed in hard.	Injury Pilot: Grazed knee

Date 03.07.2005 (B3937)	Pilot Male Rating: P	Location Mendlesham, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Kpl3 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary After landing pilot discovered hang point pivot pin had slipped out 2cm having noticed a creaking noise while being towed into air.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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