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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 02.07.2009 (B4361)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: AP	Location Laragne, France Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes RS Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary While on final glide to goal field pilot was caught out by increased wind and was forced to land short in turbulent air. Glider nosed in hard and pilot could not release uprights quick enough.	Injury Pilot: Fr little finger, cut leg.
Date 12.06.2009 (B4353)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: Under training	Location Woldingham SW bowl, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Hi Way Stubby Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student moved hands on uprights while on launch run allowing nose to drop. Glider nosed in and student swung though.	Injury Pilot: Bruised elbow
Date 12.06.2009 (B4352)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: Under training	Location Woldingham SW bowl, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Hi Way Stubby Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student pulled leg muscle while ground handling glider.	Injury Pilot: Pulled muscle in leg
Date 02.06.2009 (B4349)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: Under training	Location UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Falcon Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student misjudged approach and landed heavily resulting in bent upright.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 30.05.2009 (B4347)	Pilot Male Age: 66 Rating: CP	Location Labrador Bay, UK Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Xtralite 147 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot landed in sea having allowed himself to run out of landing options while coastal soaring. Pilot had been focusing on taking pictures rather than flying.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 11.05.2009 (B4340)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: CP	Location La Charbe, France Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing U2 145 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot rigged glider incorrectly resulting in severe right turn. Pilot managed to get glider down to landing area but lost control when moving to uprights to land. Glider turned and crashed into tree.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated elbow
Date 01.05.2009 (B4337)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: P	Location Merthyr, UK Wind Strength: 41-48 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Sport 2 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Whilst clipped in in very windy conditions the nose wires became detached. Pilot was lifted 15ft and flung backwards onto a large rock.	Injury Pilot: Strained ligaments in foot
Date 13.03.2009 (B4313)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: P	Location Perranporth, UK Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Talon 150 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary On finals pilot decided to go round but then quickly lost height resulting in the glider drifting off-line and stalling into rigging gliders.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 17.09.2008 (B4294)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: Novice	Location Swanborough, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Finsterwalder Perfex Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student inadvertently stalled glider on final approach when changing grip from base bar to uprights.	Injury Pilot: Bruising and abrasions.
Date 03.08.2008 (B4280)	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: AP	Location Chabre, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Combat Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary During competition pilot encountered severe lee-side turbulence. Glider (with lowered sprogs) went weightless and folded. Pilot deployed (34sqm) emergency chute and landed fast but in trees.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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