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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 18.08.2007 (B4193)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: P	Location Chabre, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Cheetah 160 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot was unable to bleed off enough speed (possible tail wind) and nosed in.	Injury Pilot: Fr humerus
Date 12.07.2007 (B4181)	Pilot Male Age: 64 Rating: Novice	Location Myhophen, Austria Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Swing Arcus 4 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Unqualified pilot spun into trees while attempting to thermal.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 26.05.2007 (B4163)	Pilot Male Age: 31 Rating: CP	Location Wether Fell, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Sport 2 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot ended up too low for bottom landing area. Chose field that sloped down but into wind. pilot realised he was going to overshoot so went for gap in trees to see power lines on other side. tried to dive under but hit kingpost and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr leg, cut head
Date 20.05.2007 (B4157)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: CP	Location Long Mynd, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Xc132 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary On running down hill for take off in light conditions, A frame clipped hill and caused glider to nosedive into hill damaging the upright.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 04.05.2007 (B4151)	Pilot Male Age: 61 Rating: Novice	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Target Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Glider went off-line slightly on tow. Student did not release A frame when glider struck ground.	Injury Pilot: Fr humerus
Date 21.04.2007 (B4142)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: P	Location Deptford, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Litesport 4 Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Pilot jumped into glider on aerotow launch then stalled a wing as he pushed out to prevent dropping. Locked out at low level and crashed in vertically.	Injury Pilot: Fr clavicles
Date 18.04.2007 (B4140)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location Wether Fell, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Breeze Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and struck wall on landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist, cuts to head, damaged shoulder
Date 16.04.2007 (B4138)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: Novice	Location Swanborough, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airbourne Fun 190 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student came in to land too slowly and mushed in on wheels causing break to arm.	Injury Pilot: Fr arm
Date 14.04.2007 (B4135)	Pilot Male Rating: P	Location White Mountain, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Magic 4 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Change of wind direction forced pilot to go for bottom landing field that was in rotor. Pilot landed heavily from 50ft.	Injury Pilot: Fr arm
Date 21.03.2007 (B4120)	Pilot Male Age: 71 Rating: CP	Location Combe Gibbet, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Discovery 195	Summary Pilot was thrown over backwards while rigging hang glider in breezy conditions. Glider blew back damaging another wing and a car.	Injury Pilot: Concussion , bruising

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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