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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 26.07.2003 (B3697)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: AP	Location Laragne, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Litespeed 4 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 24.07.2003 (B3696)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: Novice	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Condor Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student drifted off line and tow line was guillotined by winch operator. Student over corrected and crash landed.	Injury Pilot: Fr humerus.
Date 20.07.2003 (B3694)	Pilot Male Age: 56 Rating: CP	Location Larragne, Bhpa Nationals., France	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Multiple, including head injuries.
Date 15.07.2003 (B3692)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: AP	Location Chabre, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Cheetah Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Lightly bruised.
Date 07.07.2003 (B3688)	Pilot Male Age: 28 Rating: CP	Location Bedlinog, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Hi Way Vision Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Dislocated shoulder.
Date 01.07.2003 (B3684)	Pilot Unknown	Location UK	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Goldmarque Gyr Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Unknown
Date 23.06.2003 (B3678)	Pilot Male Age: 30	Location Abertysswg, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Magic Iv Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Broken left arm & possibly shoulder
Date 21.06.2003 (B3674)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: CP	Location Edenfield, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Extralite Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 12.06.2003 (B3663)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: Novice	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Icaro Mars Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fr left arm, torn tendons in arm.
Date 07.06.2003 (B3656)	Pilot Male Age: 56 Rating: P	Location Aspres, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Rush Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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