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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 23.06.2002 (B3454)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location Kimmeridge, UK	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Magic 4	Summary During daily inspection the pilot discovered the nut attaching the cross tube to the leading edge was loose with the thread well worn.	Injury Unknown
Date 23.06.2002 (B3453)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: CP	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Ventura Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary During tow launch the pilot heard a thud followed by the glider pitching nose down. The pilot couldnt find his reserve parachute handle and impacted the ground heavily. He then discovered that his parachute had accidentally deployed during the launch.	Injury Pilot: Bruised left leg and back; to casualty at cottage hospital- buxton
Date 23.06.2002 (B3452)	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: CP	Location Woolacombe, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Xtralite Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details.	Injury Pilot: Concussion, bruises, cut lip & tongue and chipped tooth
Date 20.06.2002 (B3451)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location Kimmeridge, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Magic 4 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Following launch the pilot was unable to assume the prone position in the harness. Upon later inspection he discovered that the internal harness chord had broken.	Injury Unknown
Date 04.06.2002 (B3442)	Pilot Male Age: 27	Location Constitution Hill, Aberystwyth, UK	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider	Summary Report received from AAIB of hang glider crash.	Injury Pilot: Uspecified
Date 01.06.2002 (B3440)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: P	Location Mont Sarha, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Icaro Atos Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Illegible - can only glean that pilot misjudged landing approach which resulted in a crash.	Injury Pilot: Broken ulnar- l cracked humerus- r ambulance to huddersfield hospital
Date 31.05.2002 (B3438)	Pilot Male Age: 52	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Icaro Mars Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student pushed out during tow launch causing the gliders left wing to stall, the glider turned and the left wing tip hit the ground.	Injury Pilot: Bruised right leg anmd shoulder
Date 12.05.2002 (B3432)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: P	Location Thornhill, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Scandal Xkr Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Pilot misjudged landing approach and undershot the intended landing field. He collided with a tall bush resulting in the glider sustaining structural damage.	Injury Unknown
Date 11.05.2002 (B3429)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: AP	Location Bradwell Edge, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Icaro 2000	Summary Pilot approaching top landing field misjudged windstrength and made his final turn too low leaving insufficient height to clear a wall at the downwind end of the field. The pilot landed cross wind behind the wall.	Injury Unknown
Date 11.05.2002 (B3428)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: CP	Location West Firle, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Swing Mistral 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot performing 360 degree turns whilst low. During one turn the glider encountered sinking air with the result that he was unable to complete the turn, the pilot impacted the hill.	Injury Pilot: Cracked/fractured l1 vertibrae

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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