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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:

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
11.07.2004

(B3827)
Pilot
Male

Age:
49

Rating:
CP
Location
The Lawley,
UK

Wind Strength:
16-24 km/h

Conditions:
Thermic

Wing Type
Flexwing Hang Glider

Wing:
Hi Way
Vision

Launch Type:
Foot (Assisted)

Summary
Pilot became object fixated and allowed himself to get too low with no room to turn away from the hill. Landed heavily and broke upright.
Injury
Pilot:
Unhurt
Date
14.06.2004

(B3816)
Pilot
Male

Age:
31

Rating:
AP
Location
Douelle,
France

Wind Strength:
24-32 km/h

Conditions:
Thermic

Wing Type
Flexwing Hang Glider

Wing:
Wills Wing
Talon

Launch Type:
Foot (Assisted)

Summary
During competition with pilots queuing behind, pilot went for launch but wings were not level. Wing tip touched ground on take off causing glider to turn sharply crash landing in trees.
Injury
Pilot:
Unhurt
Date
12.06.2004

(B3812)
Pilot
Male

Age:
56

Rating:
CP
Location
Hay Bluff,
UK

Wind Strength:
24-32 km/h

Conditions:
Variable

Wing Type
Flexwing Hang Glider

Wing:
Airwave
K4

Launch Type:
Foot (Forward)

Summary
Pilot caught base bar on gorse bush on landing approach.
Injury
Pilot:
Fr arm
Date
06.06.2004

(B3811)
Pilot
Male

Age:
43

Rating:
CP
Location
Bewaldeth,
UK

Wind Strength:
32-40 km/h

Conditions:
Gusts

Wing Type
Flexwing Hang Glider

Wing:
Ariel Arts
Clubman 160

Launch Type:
Foot (Forward)

Summary
Pilot decided to land and put glider in steep turn to lose height. Glider entered a tumble and impacted heavily.
Injury
Pilot:
10 fr ribs, punctured lung.
Date
23.05.2004

(B3797)
Pilot
Male

Age:
48

Rating:
CP
Location
Sutton Meadows,
UK

Wind Strength:
16-24 km/h

Conditions:
Thermic

Wing Type
Flexwing Hang Glider

Wing:
Avian
Rio

Launch Type:
Aero Tow

Summary
Emergency parachute deployed accidentaly having just released from aerotow. Pilot thinks it may not have been correctly fitted.
Injury
Pilot:
Unhurt
Date
17.05.2004

(B3789)
Pilot
Male

Age:
39

Rating:
CP
Location
Westbury,
UK

Wind Strength:
16-24 km/h

Conditions:
Thermic

Wing Type
Flexwing Hang Glider

Wing:
Flight Design
Ghostbuster

Launch Type:
Foot (Forward)

Summary
Pilot decided to land having lost spoileron in turbulence. Caught base bar on long grass and nosed in heavily.
Injury
Pilot:
Neck and back strain
Date
07.05.2004

(B3782)
Pilot
Male

Age:
25

Rating:
Novice
Location
Abertysswg,
UK

Wind Strength:
8-16 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady

Wing Type
Flexwing Hang Glider

Wing:
Hi Way
Stubby

Launch Type:
Foot (Assisted)

Summary
Student lost concentration and pushed out instead of pulling in causing glider to stall.
Injury
Pilot:
Unhurt
Date
09.04.2004

(B3772)
Pilot
Male

Age:
31

Rating:
Novice
Location
Bow Lee,
UK

Wind Strength:
0-8 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady

Wing Type
Flexwing Hang Glider

Wing:
Aeros
T16

Launch Type:
Foot (Forward)

Summary
Student flew without permission or guidance from instructor and crashed.
Injury
Pilot:
Fr elbow
Date
02.02.2004

(B3757)
Pilot
Male

Age:
55
Location
Beer Head,
UK

Wind Strength:
24-32 km/h

Conditions:
Variable

Wing Type
Flexwing Hang Glider

Wing:
Moyes
Litespeed

Launch Type:
Foot (Forward)

Summary
Pilot took off with too high angle of attack and stalled a wing due to a combination of flying too slowly and having fuzzy hair.
Injury
Pilot:
Concussion, fuzzy hair.
Date
17.10.2003

(B3746)
Pilot
Male

Age:
55

Rating:
P
Location
Tap O Noth,
UK

Wind Strength:
0-8 km/h

Conditions:
Variable

Wing Type
Flexwing Hang Glider

Wing:
Solar Wings
Xkr

Launch Type:
Foot (Forward)

Summary
HG pilot cocked up light wind take off. Broke upright.
Injury
Pilot:
Unhurt

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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