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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).

All Wing Types Paraglider Flexwing Hang Glider Rigid Hang Glider Speedrider Speedflyer/Miniwing Powered PG Powered HG Other

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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 29.09.2002 (B3557)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: P	Location Rushup Edge, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Stealth *Pl Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Glider had uncontrollable right turn - only discovered after launch - pilot impacted the hill. Glider had been crashed on previous flight - no damage discovered.	Injury Pilot: Concussion, lacerated knee
Date 24.09.2002 (B3551)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: P	Location Die Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Magic 3 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot attempting to launch in light wind conditions did not generate sufficient airspeed during take-off run. Witnesses said nose was too high. Glider stalled and fell over 40ft cliff edge into trees.	Injury Unknown
Date 20.09.2002 (B3545)	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: CP	Location Unknown	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider	Summary During hang check the noseman noticed that the pilots harness shoulder rope was frayed. It appeared that the rope had been overstitched causing the cord to melt.	Injury Unknown
Date 19.09.2002 (B3543)	Pilot Unknown	Location Unknown	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Kiss	Summary Pilot was seen to misjudge his landing approach and land heavily on a road.	Injury Pilot: Unconscious, ambulance called, dr on scene
Date 15.09.2002 (B3538)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Annecy, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Pulse, Mkii Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 13.09.2002 (B3537)	Pilot Male Age: 30 Rating: CP	Location Mercury, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Rumour 1 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Inexperienced pilot misjudged landing approach - touched ground but then wing became airborne again - eventually landed heavily at front of ridsge.	Injury Unknown
Date 28.08.2002 (B3526)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: P	Location Col Dela Forclaz, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Typhoon S4 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Paraglider pilot attempted to launch whilst a hang glider was stood waiting to launch at the one and only TO spot. The PG pilot failed to control his canopy which then dragged him into the HG.	Injury Unknown
Date 25.08.2002 (B3522)	Pilot Male Age: 39	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Mars Illaro Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary As the glider approached the ground following a low hop the student pulled in the control frame causing the glider to dive into the ground.	Injury Pilot: Fractured humerous, 1st aid & to derbyshire royal infirmary
Date 24.08.2002 (B3521)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Reo Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Whilst tow launching the pilot attempted to correct his track by turning right. However, he did not maintain sufficient airspeed during this attempted turn, causing the left wing to stall. The glider drifted off course and impacted the ground.	Injury Pilot: Chipped elbow, bruises to derbyshire royal hospital
Date 24.08.2002 (B3519)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Airways Flight Park, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Rio Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot tow launched whilst wearing doodlebug power harness - engine off. At 20ft glider drifted off line - tow aborted - pilot unable to control gliders direction, drifted off course, pilot landed heavily on right side.	Injury Pilot: Broken bones in elbow, ambulance to derbyshire royal infirmary

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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