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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 03.03.2005 (B3888)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: Novice	Location Lords Seat, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Target 16 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student appears to have allowed glider to lose too much energy leading to a heavy landing. Poor flare also a factor.	Injury Pilot: Dislo elbow
Date 04.12.2004 (B3870)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: Novice	Location Kennel Farm, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Hi Way Stubby Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student went off line slightly but then pulled bar in on landing instead of flaring resulting in heavy landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr arm
Date 13.11.2004 (B3867)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: CP	Location Devils Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airbourne Sting Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Airprox with Police helicopter.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 30.10.2004 (B3864)	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: CP	Location Parlick, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Eagle Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot made poor approach and landed short in ditch.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist
Date 27.08.2004 (B3855)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: P	Location Merthyr, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Litespeed 5 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Glider entered 360 on approach as pilot tried to undo harness zip.	Injury Pilot: Fr shoulder, fr ribs
Date 20.08.2004 (B3851)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: CP	Location Hill Farm Norfolk, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Elan Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot failed to maintain good speed and control while on approach for landing. Landed in crop but did not let go of uprights.	Injury Pilot: Fr arms, dislo shoulders
Date 16.08.2004 (B3850)	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: CP	Location Eyam Edge, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Offpiste Discovery Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot on hill conversion course lost too much height while attempting to soar. Glider was seen to be flying slowly and eventually crashed into stone structure.	Injury Pilot: Fr ribs, dislo elbow
Date 08.08.2004 (B3845)	Pilot Male Age: 30 Rating: AP	Location Puncho, France Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Ls4 S Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot stalled having pushed out to miss trees on landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr collar bone, shoulder and ribs
Date 31.07.2004 (B3835)	Pilot Female Age: 33 Rating: Novice	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Falcon Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student failed to release on low flight then mistimed flare on landing. Landed heavily still holding uprights.	Injury Pilot: Fr arm
Date 17.07.2004 (B3830)	Pilot Female Age: 44 Rating: AP	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Fly 2 Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Student relaxed grip causing glider to enter turn. Instructor managed to level wings but could not make landing area due to height loss. .	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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