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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 284 published incident report summaries for Flexwing Hang Gliders

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 12.08.2001 (B3319)	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: CP	Location Col De Forclas, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Kiss 154 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot stalled the glider whilst attempting to fly slowly in thermal lift, glider impacted the hill.	Injury Pilot: Swollen knee.
Date 09.08.2001 (B3318)	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: CP	Location Hill Farm, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Hi Way Stubby Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student encountered turbulence during tow launch - he attempted to correct the gliders direction but overcontrolled the glider resulting in him now facing downwind. He continued his downwind flight path until he impacted the ground.	Injury Pilot: Fr cervical vertebra * 2.
Date 07.08.2001 (B3316)	Pilot Male Age: 30 Rating: CP	Location Col De La Forclaz, France	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Pulse Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary PG and HG flying toward each other head on. At the last moment the HG turned right to avoid a collision and the PG turned left, HG tumbled and crashed in slope.	Injury Pilot: Cuts and bruises.
Date 04.08.2001 (B3314)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: P	Location St Andre, France Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Java	Summary A gust caused the glider to lift - the pilot reacted by grabbing the gliders upright and his wife held the leading edge midway along its length. They noticed that the cross tube was badly bent.	Injury Unknown
Date 31.07.2001 (B3312)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: AP	Location St Andre, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Combat	Summary Pilot hit tree during landing approach.	Injury Pilot: Fr femur, concussion and loss of consciousness for more than three days, fr metacarpel.
Date 28.07.2001 (B3307)	Pilot Male Age: 51	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Icaro Mars 2000 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student overcontrolled following tow release, student pushed out during a turn whilst low, glider stalled pilot impacted the ground.	Injury Pilot: Concussion, cuts to face, bruising.
Date 22.07.2001 (B3301)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: CP	Location Freathy, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Sportster Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot allow a turn to develop whilst launching his hang glider resulting in his right wingtip contacting the ground and the glider spinning into the hill. All this took place after 2 hours of paragliding.	Injury Pilot: Fr ribs, collar bone, 3 crushed vertebrae,nose. internal injuries to lungs etc. frontal dislocation of left femur. cuts to face etc.
Date 01.07.2001 (B3295)	Pilot Male Age: 39	Location Serra Do Loranco, Spain Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Icaro Laminar Mrx 2001st13 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot forced to land on wheels after xc flight. Wheels snagged in ruts in the field the pilot swung through control frame.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated elbow.
Date 23.06.2001 (B3291)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: P	Location Mendlesham, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Rumour 2 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot drifted off line during tow flight after long lay-off, the tow was aborted and the pilot crashed in long grass.	Injury Pilot: Sprained neck
Date 09.06.2001 (B3284)	Pilot Male Age: 20	Location UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Hi Way Stubby Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary No details.	Injury Pilot: Not given

Last updated: 16 September 2026

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