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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 05.05.2002 (B3426)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: P	Location Corndon, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: La Mouette- Topless 1	Summary Following a xc flight the pilot misjudged the wind direction which resulted in a downwind landing. The glider landed on its wheels then ground looped.	Injury Unknown
Date 05.05.2002 (B3425)	Pilot Unknown	Location Monks Down, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Scandal Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Unknown
Date 05.05.2002 (B3424)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location Monks Down, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Magic Iv Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot misjudged wind strength on landing approach which resulted in his landing approach being too far back behind landing field. He narrowly avoided a collision with a barbed wire fence.	Injury Unknown
Date 25.04.2002 (B3417)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: P	Location Shinning Tor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Amour159 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Following a short xc flight the pilot misjudged his approach into a field clipping the roof of a barn on his final turn into wind. The glider rotated left and then inverted.	Injury Pilot: Sprained left wrist bruised hip
Date 20.04.2002 (B3413)	Pilot Female Age: 42 Rating: AP	Location Darley Mook, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Fly 2 Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary During a tandem aerotow launch turbulence caused the weak link to break. The pilot flew a downwind leg followed by an attempt to turn into wind. With insufficient height to complete the turn the pilot landed cross wind, hitting a fence.	Injury Pilot: Sore back
Date 13.04.2002 (B3406)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location Harting, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Magic 4 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot failed to unzip his harness during landing approach. Landed fully zipped up with 2mph ground speed which caused the nose to drop.	Injury Unknown
Date 13.04.2002 (B3405)	Pilot Unknown	Location Harting, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Breeze Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot seen to be flying close to the stall with insufficient altitude.	Injury Unknown
Date 03.04.2002 (B3401)	Pilot Male	Location Dorset Coast 2m West Durdle Door. Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider	Summary No details.	Injury Pilot: Fr lower back
Date 01.04.2002 (B3400)	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: CP	Location Drayton St Leonard, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Rumour 1 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary During a tow launch the line broke whilst the glider was at a height of 1500ft. The pilot released the line which fell onto nearby pwer lines. A vehicle drove over the line draggin it over the power lines which broke.	Injury Unknown
Date 25.03.2002 (B3394)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: P	Location Leadlich, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Air Atos Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Following a xc flight the pilot misjudged the wind direction on landing resulting in a downwind landing.	Injury Pilot: Broken right anke: fibula; didnt go hospital for 2 days as thought it was just sprained

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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