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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 14.03.2001 (B3259)	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: CP	Location Kennedy, France, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Clubman 160 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot clipped tree during landing approach.	Injury Pilot: Slight bruising.
Date 25.02.2001 (B3256)	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: AP	Location Thornhill, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Klassic Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Pilot on first aerotow foot launch flight, ran too fast on launch resulting in no line tension the glider started to fly but the pilot was unable to keep up with it, glider stalled and was pulled into the ground.	Injury Pilot: Spiral fracture left humerus with nerve damage. nerve palsy radial.
Date 31.01.2001 (B3241)	Pilot Male Rating: CP	Location Mala, Spain Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Hi Way Vision V Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot flew too close to the hill in turbulent conditions - resulted in the glider being turned toward the hill in a strong gust.	Injury Pilot: Fr scaphoid bone left hand; break at old fracture. bruised face and leg
Date 21.01.2001 (B3236)	Pilot Male Age: 29 Rating: AP	Location Beer Head, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Csx 137 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary HG attempting a rushed launch on a busy site clipped the ground with his wing tip causing the other wing to enter the lift first. The glider rotated about the inside wing and then hit the hill.	Injury Pilot: No injuries.
Date 25.12.2000 (B3227)	Pilot Female Age: 24	Location Macher, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Harmony Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary During ground handliing trim problem discovered. It was found that c and d lines had shrunk by 10mm.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 15.12.2000 (B3225)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Devils Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Rio Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary The pilot made his approach to top landing too far back and with insufficient airspeed the glider stalled through the wind gradient.	Injury Pilot: Fractures of both arms (humerus).
Date 05.11.2000 (B3224)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location Frinton, UK Wind Strength: 40-48 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Enterprise Combat Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Broken clip supplied for examination. Glider negatively loaded during rigging - loud bang heard after launch - Pilot managed to land safely and discovered that the vb limiter strap has become detached due to a distorted clip.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 3 July 2026

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