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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 05.10.2003 (B3743)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: CP	Location Devils Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Offpiste Discovery Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot attempted first top landing in strong conditions and possible rotor. Glider dropped wing and crashed. Pilot should have been with Coach for this task!	Injury Pilot: Fr humerus
Date 04.10.2003 (B3742)	Pilot Male Rating: CP	Location Bell Hill, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Clubman	Summary Laid flat glider picked up by wind and flipped back. Hit parked car causing slight dent.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 28.09.2003 (B3741)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: Novice	Location Winter Hill, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Target	Summary Student tip stalled glider prior to landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist
Date 28.08.2003 (B3723)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: AP	Location Brazil	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No IR received at all. Have emailed RR 20/11/03. Tony.	Injury Pilot: Pelvis and head injuries.
Date 16.08.2003 (B3714)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: P	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Amour Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Pilot released from aerotow due to oscilations. Flew into large pile of poo on landing!	Injury Pilot: Multiple fractures to left humerus.
Date 16.08.2003 (B3713)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: AP	Location Mercury, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Litespeed 4 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 15.08.2003 (B3712) Formal Report	Pilot Female Age: 54 Rating: CP	Location Crow Hall, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Sky Hook Gypsy Small Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student went off line on tow then spiralled into ground.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.
Date 07.08.2003 (B3707)	Pilot Male Age: 22 Rating: Novice	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Elan Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student went off line and landed down wind. Glider flipped over.	Injury Pilot: Concussion, sprained wrist.
Date 01.08.2003 (B3702)	Pilot Male Rating: CP	Location Bell Hill, UK	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: La Mouette Topless	Summary Pilot landed having flown under power lines. Didnt realsie until after landed.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 27.07.2003 (B3700)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: CP	Location Hill Farm, Norfolk, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Pulse 2 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Badly bruised arm, thigh and knee detached left biceps tendon.

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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