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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 28.08.2010 (B4487)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: AP	Location Mendleshan, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Java 155 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot noticed glider had left turn and no bar pressure while on winch tow. Released at 200m and managed to land safely. Suspects curled up mylar inside leading edge due to fishing for broken batten ends.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 22.08.2010 (B4486)	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: CP	Location Chabre, France Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Scandal Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and landed downwind.	Injury Pilot: Bruising to face and arms
Date 21.08.2010 (B4485)	Pilot Male Age: 67 Rating: AP	Location Bigsteer, UK Wind Strength: 35-40 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Cheetah 166 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot encountered turbulence on approach and was unable to control glider resulting in crash landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebrae, ribs and thumb.
Date 19.08.2010 (B4484)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: CP	Location Hill Farm Fransham, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Ariel Arts Clubman Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and heavily in wrong field.	Injury Pilot: Cuts and bruises to arms and face
Date 17.07.2010 (B4474)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: CP	Location Long Mynd, UK Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Xtralite 164 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary While thermalling pilot noticed velcro holding parachute was coming undone. Pilot attempted to prevent chute falling out but was unable and chute deployed. Pilot landed heavily in head down position sustaining cuts and bruises.	Injury Pilot: Bruising to arms and shoulder. cut eye.
Date 03.07.2010 (B4471)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: CP	Location Long Mynd, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing U2 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and landed in tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 27.06.2010 (B4466) Formal Report	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: AP	Location Clatter, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airborne Rev Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot had mid-air collision while thermalling during a competition. Collision resulted in damage to glider and pilot deployed emergency parachute. Combination of head down attitude and very small parachute resulted in severe injury to the pilot.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebrae
Date 27.06.2010 (B4465)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: P	Location Clatter, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Stealth kpl Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot had mid-air collision while thermalling during a competition. Pilot attempted to land normally but glider became unstable and pilot crashed.	Injury Pilot: Bruising and muscle strain
Date 23.06.2010 (B4462)	Pilot Male Age: 37	Location Kimmeridge, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Clubman Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and was still in turn as he hit the ground. Broke leading edge and upright but pilot ok.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 19.06.2010 (B4459)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: P	Location Monks Down, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airborne Sting 3 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and crashed into fence.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 3 July 2026

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