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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:

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• Paraglider
• Flexwing Hang Glider
• Rigid Hang Glider
• Speedrider
• Speedflyer/Miniwing
• Powered PG
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• 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 18.06.2010 (B4458)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location Bo Peep, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Air Atos 14.5 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary On approach glider hit by thermal which turned glider towards trees. Wing struck tree causing glider to turn and pitch down. Landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 12.06.2010 (B4451)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: AP	Location Devils Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot, with history of shoulder dislocation, reached for uprights and dislocated shoulder. Pilot landed crosswind and ground-looped. No further injuries sustained.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated shoulder
Date 09.05.2010 (B4438)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: CP	Location Model Ridge, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Ace Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot failed to properly control glider and stalled glider on approach in attempt to miss people in car park.	Injury Pilot: Fr shoulder
Date 04.04.2010 (B4424)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: CP	Location Kovek, Slovenia, Slovenia Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airborne Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary On final approach pilot hit turbulence while on uprights. Both harness buckles opened then the zip became undone. Pilot landed safely. Later inspection found buckles could release under load.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 17.01.2010 (B4409)	Pilot Female Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Milk Hill Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros KPL Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot misjudged height and wind speed on approach. Nosed in on landing.	Injury Pilot: Bruised eye
Date 15.11.2009 (B4401)	Pilot Male Age: 56 Rating: AP	Location Ben Bhraggie, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airborne Fun 190 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Wind dropped and pilot decided to bottom land. Discovered harness zip jammed so decided to land on wheels. Landed ok but one wheel hit hole and stopped abruptly.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated shoulder
Date 10.09.2009 (B4380)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: CP	Location Pontlottyn, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Sport 2 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot mistimed first ever upslope landing. Flying too slow, possible stall. Glider nosed in.	Injury Pilot: Fr humerus
Date 01.09.2009 (B4375)	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: CP	Location Crow Hall, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Target Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot encountered turbulence at 40ft on tow launch. Launch was aborted and pilot instructed to land ahead. Pilot failed to flare sufficiently and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated arm
Date 01.08.2009 (B4366)	Pilot Male Age: 68 Rating: P	Location Perranporth, UK Wind Strength: 35-40 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Hi Way Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot suffered high speed stall on modified prototype hang glider.	Injury Pilot: Fr c2 vertebra
Date 25.07.2009 (B4364)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: P	Location Sutton Meadows, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airborne C2 Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Pilot failed to hold trolley rope during aerotow launch. Glider lifted prematurely, rotating to the right and impacted heavily.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated shoulder

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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