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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 01.06.2003 (B3655)	Pilot Female Age: 24 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: Broken left humerous, bruises to left side
Date 31.05.2003 (B3650)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: P	Location Aerotow-Com Aulk, Spain Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Icaro Relax Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Sprain to right wrist and a bruise on knee
Date 30.05.2003 (B3647)	Pilot Female Age: 51 Rating: CP	Location Laragne, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Eagle 145 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Two fractured arms.
Date 25.05.2003 (B3641)	Pilot Male Age: 28 Rating: Novice	Location Bedlinog, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Hi Way Stubby Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fractured tibia and fibula open
Date 12.05.2003 (B3633)	Pilot Male Age: 31 Rating: Novice	Location Perranporth, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Mars 170 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Dislocated shoulder
Date 11.05.2003 (B3632)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location Sutton Meadows, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Combat 2 Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Sprained right wrist, bruised right knee, 2 broken teeth
Date 26.04.2003 (B3625)	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: Novice	Location Cockle Park, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Hi Way Stubby Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student confused by different coloured webbing so released under tension and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Disloction of left arm from shoulder socket. torn arm and chest muscles
Date 24.04.2003 (B3624)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: P	Location UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Eclipse/Ghostbuster Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 21.04.2003 (B3621)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: P	Location Chinrwell Tora, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave K2 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 21.04.2003 (B3620)	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: Novice	Location Muggery Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Stubby Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Broken tooth crown and cut lip

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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