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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 18.04.2003 (B3618)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: P	Location Mercury, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Xkr Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Sprained ankle
Date 18.04.2003 (B3617)	Pilot Male Age: 29 Rating: P	Location Mercury, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Xtralite Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Concussion, x-rays shows a shadow on skull
Date 10.04.2003 (B3614)	Pilot Female Age: 36 Rating: AP	Location Quest Air Soaring, US Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Litespeed 4 Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Badly cut nose.
Date 06.04.2003 (B3610)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: AP	Location UK	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 04.04.2003 (B3606) Formal Report	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: P	Location Harting Down, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Amour Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fatal.
Date 31.03.2003 (B3604)	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: CP	Location Crows Hall, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Amour Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Pilot allowed glider to go off-line during aerotow. Possibly flying too slow.	Injury Pilot: Concussion and bruising
Date 30.03.2003 (B3602)	Pilot Male Age: 34 Rating: AP	Location Shining Tor, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Icaro Laminar St Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Bruised ribs.
Date 30.03.2003 (B3601)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: CP	Location Hill Farm, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Java Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Low level weak link break leading to difficult landing.	Injury Pilot: Minor bruising of thumb.
Date 27.01.2003 (B3585)	Pilot Female Age: 37 Rating: CP	Location Macher,Lanzerote., Spain Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Rio Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Broken humerus left arm
Date 21.01.2003 (B3583)	Pilot Female Age: 33 Rating: CP	Location Wallably Ranch, US Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Falcon 170 Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Broken leg and dislocated ankle

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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