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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 16.08.2002 (B3512)	Pilot Male Age: 36	Location Devils Dyke, UK	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airbourne - Fun	Summary Student on early high flight overcontrolled the pitch of the glider durng landing. Attempted to flare then fell through the A frame - failed to let go of the uprights.	Injury Pilot: Upper arm fracture, ambulance to sussex county- brighton
Date 20.07.2002 (B3487)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: CP	Location Butser West, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Alvion Elan Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Midair collision with model aircraft - hang glider continued to fly unaffected, model broke in impact.	Injury Unknown
Date 18.07.2002 (B3484)	Pilot Male Age: 34 Rating: P	Location Chabre-Larange, France Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Xtralite Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Fast jet narrowly missed a hang glider soaring the ridge at 200ft. Approxi mate separation 100ft.	Injury Unknown
Date 14.07.2002 (B3480)	Pilot Female Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: La Mouette Topless Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Inexperienced pilot misjudged landing approach, narrowly avoided collision with parked cars. Bent upright and heart bolt.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 14.07.2002 (B3479)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: P	Location Metfield, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Java 155 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Whilst releasing from a tow launch the tow release pin penetrated the pilots gloveless finger - the pilot had his hand in a position in front of the release which he operated with his palm.	Injury Pilot: Deep cut to the finger,
Date 13.07.2002 (B3472)	Pilot Unknown	Location North Luffenham, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Sportlite 396 Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary Pilot was nable to complete the final turn into wind during the landing approach due to insufficient height - landed cross wind falling onto the passenger.	Injury Pilot: Bruise.
Date 10.07.2002 (B3465)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: P	Location Merthyr, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Rumour 1	Summary Inexperienced pilot was inadvertently turned by turbulent air whilst ridge soaring. With insufficient airspeed the pilot was unable to correct the turn which resulted in a collision with the hill.	Injury Pilot: Soft tissue- facial, bruised hand & ribs, concussion, unconscious for approx 5 min, air helicopter to myrtha hospital
Date 07.07.2002 (B3463)	Pilot Unknown	Location Tailbridge, UK Wind Strength: 40-48 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Non member attempted 360 degree turn following launch - insufficient height resulted in him impacting the hill.	Injury Unknown
Date 24.06.2002 (B3460)	Pilot Female Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: La Mouette Topless Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot attempting to top land in strong conditions struggled to turn the glider into wind whilst on the downwind leg. She tried apply more force by putting her feet onto the bottom bar, before returning to prone. She impacted the ground i the final turn.	Injury Unknown
Date 23.06.2002 (B3456)	Pilot Male Age: 64 Rating: CP	Location Long Mynd, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Magic : Kiss Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Whilst attempting to top land in gusty conditions the pilot flew the downwind leg with insufficient airspeed. This resulted in him having difficulty turning back into wind. The pilot landed cross wind on a road behind the landing area.	Injury Pilot: Unconscious > 1hr/ face helicopter to shrewsbury royal hospital, head & neck

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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