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Incident Reports (FIDA)

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:

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).

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 21.07.2008 (B4273)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: P	Location Bell Hill, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Discus Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot nosed in glider having caught base bar in crop on landing. Conditions known to be gusty, turbulent and windy.	Injury Pilot: Strained arm

Date 13.06.2008 (B4265)	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: AP	Location Blorenge, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airbourne C4 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot noticed main power lines on out-landing but failed to notice spur off main line. Had to make late turn to avoid spur and landed heavily downwind.	Injury Pilot: Fr finger, dislocated fingers

Date 09.06.2008 (B4263)	Pilot Male Age: 61 Rating: P	Location Bo Peep, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airbourne C4 - 13.5 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot had mid-air collision with paraglider while thermalling. Became wrapped in paraglider and went inverted. Was able to recover and land.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 24.05.2008 (B4254)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: AP	Location Sharpenhoe, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Cheetah Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot was turned 90 degrees on final approach and landed heavily. Conditions were windy, gusty and rough. Wind was 45 degrees off slope.	Injury Pilot: Tissue damage to elbow

Date 26.01.2008 (B4231)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: CP	Location Freathy, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Scandal Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot misjudged approach resulting in crash into cliffs. Pilot avoided serious injury by deliberately crashing the glider nose first and releasing the base bar prior to impact.	Injury Pilot: Cut face, bruising

Date 02.12.2007 (B4228)	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: Novice	Location Elco Cheo, Spain Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Rio Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Student turned wrong way on approach and ended up in lee of small hill. Landed into wind but heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr humerus

Date 14.11.2007 (B4226)	Pilot Male Age: 71 Rating: CP	Location Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Top Secret Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot stalled glider attempting to take off in very light wind without required airspeed.	Injury Pilot: Minor cuts to arm

Date 27.08.2007 (B4201)	Pilot Male Age: 34 Rating: P	Location Cambridge aerotow, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airbourne C2 Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Pilot flew too far down wind and was caught out by rotor from building. Pilot was preoccupied with attempting to dump 1m of line having earlier had a weak link failure in thermic air.	Injury Pilot: Cut chin

Date 26.08.2007 (B4198)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: P	Location Fransham, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Java 155 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot went off-line on tow and crashed into trees.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist

Date 25.08.2007 (B4196)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: P	Location Long Mynd, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Extralight 147 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot forgot to put tension back on glider having just landed to adjust battens.	Injury Pilot: Fr arm

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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