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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 17.03.2002 (B3389)	Pilot Male	Location Horse Leys Farm, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Magic Iv Fr Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary Pilot being towed behind land rover usng climbing rope with no weak link or release at either end. Glider drifted off course and impacted the ground.	Injury Pilot: Fr ribs, punctured lung, concussion, dl shoulder.
Date 17.03.2002 (B3388)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: CP	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Calypso Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary At 120ft during tow launch the pilot released the line completely from his chest release. He then pushed out causing the glider to stall. During the stall the glider turned out of wind, at 20 ft the pilot stalled the glider again impacting the ground.	Injury Pilot: Light bruising
Date 31.01.2002 (B3382)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: CP	Location Stanage Edge, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Hi Way Vision 5 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot flew too far behind rocky cliff edge, he lost altitude and crashed amongst the rocks.	Injury Pilot: Three fractured vertebrae fr (r) arm fr (r) elbow cut lip/bruising.
Date 18.01.2002 (B3381)	Pilot Male Age: 36	Location Soo (Lanzarotte), Spain Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Off Piste Discovery	Summary Student flew downwind and crashed into the top of the mountain following several successful soaring beats.	Injury Pilot: Fr (r) foot.
Date 22.12.2001 (B3374)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: CP	Location Nora Hill, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Xtra Lite 147 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot attempted to extend a cross country flight with the result that he had limited landing options. Landed in the rotor behind a tor, and was also blinded by the low sun.	Injury Pilot: Possible fr ribs, aggravated previous hg head injury, minor bruises.
Date 17.11.2001 (B3370)	Pilot Unknown	Location Treak Cliff, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Vision 5 Large	Summary Student misjuddged his landing appraoch and overshot into a wall.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle.
Date 05.11.2001 (B3368)	Pilot Female Age: 26	Location Bedlinog, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Hi Way Stubby Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Student pulled the bar in during take - off run but then didnt allow the glider to return to trim during flight. She continued to fly too fast and failed to round out during landing approach, this resulted in a heavy landing.	Injury Pilot: Winded and bruised.
Date 28.10.2001 (B3358)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: P	Location Tap O Noth, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Exxtacy Large Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Flying suit material caught in the harness zip after launch the piulot struggled to undo the zip. Was unable to burst the velcro.	Injury Unknown
Date 10.09.2001 (B3339)	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: P	Location Plaine Joux, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Amour	Summary Batten trapped under the mylar leading edge caused severe turn in flight, pilot didnt realise until hed landed.	Injury Unknown
Date 26.08.2001 (B3325)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: CP	Location Aspre - Sunbeuch, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Stealth Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Following take off the glider began to oscillate in roll / yaw - the pilot was unable to control these oscillations which increased in severity until the glider impacted the ridge.	Injury Pilot: Multiple fractures of arms and legs.

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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