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Incident Reports (Informal)

All incident reports submitted via the new FIDA pan Europe incident reporting system after 21 January 2026 that have been approved for publication can be found below. This page will also slowly include a growing list of older incident report summaries.

Unfortunately, whilst all our old incident reports were successfully imported into the FIDA database by our German colleagues, they failed to include the status of the "publish" field used to determine if it can be made available on our website. As a result around 1,400 old reports now have to be reviewed and cross checked before they can appear here. This is a painfully slow process, and is likely to take some time to complete.

In the meantime a full list of all incident reports submitted via the old Euro system and passed for publication is available on our Incident reports Archive page

Incident reports are available in summary form for the following wing types:

Incident reports for flexwing hang glider wings are displayed below in summary form.

The BHPA incident reports database is fully searchable. To refine your search you can specify a particular wing type and select "or" or "and". For example, if you want to search for paraglider incidents at Hay Bluff, for best search results select paraglider from the drop down list and the "and" option.

If you want to search by incident date, please enter the day, month and year numerically as dd-mm-yyyy (eg. 03-12-2019).

If known, total hours and total flights flown are displayed below together with hours and flights flown in the past six months, the latter being displayed in brackets.

There are 14 entries for flexwing hang glider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 22.06.2016 (F11194)	Pilot male Age: 55 Rating: AP	Location Laragne Monteglin, FR Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Avian Evo 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary While on day 4 of the UK National Hang Gliding Champs there was a mid-air collision involving two hang glider pilots. One of the pilots involved sustained serious injuries.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), head injuries, cervical spine

Date 26.05.2013 (F10729)	Pilot male	Location Shropshire, GB Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions:, not turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Moyes Litespeed S Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot came in for top landing still in prone and on the base bar. Immediately prior to landing the hang glider wing struck the rear of a paraglider pilot who was packing his wing in the landing area. The hang glider crashed and the nose of the glider struck the pilot on the back of his neck.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), cervical spine

Date 11.08.2012 (F10642)	Pilot male Age: 36	Location , GB Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Avian Rio Launch Type: winch/vehicle tow	Summary Student allowed glider nose to come up during initial tow and weak link snapped. Glider recovered and dived. Pilot impacted chest first.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), head injuries, thorax

Date 18.06.2012 (F10623)	Pilot male Age: 54 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 38 years	Location Wales, GB Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions:, not turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Wills Wing T2C Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot mistimed landing flare and landed heavily with one hand still on upright.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 02.06.2012 (F10620)	Pilot male Age: 52 Rating: P Flying Experience: 19 years 302 flights	Location Sussex, GB Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions:, light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Moyes Litespeed S4 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot misjudged wind on landing and glider stalled from 2m. Pilot did not release the uprights.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 13.05.2012 (F10612)	Pilot male Age: 65 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 46 years	Location Somerset, GB Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Wills Wing Talon Launch Type: foot	Summary Because of windy and turbulent conditions, pilot could not make normal landing field and landed in a field with cattle.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 12.05.2012 (F10613)	Pilot male Age: 46 65 flights	Location Deryshire, GB Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Airwave Pulse 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary Student made approach to top landing but was too high. Made approach to alternate landing field but stalled one wing and landed heavily. Did not let go of uprights.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 08.05.2012 (F10610)	Pilot male Age: 49 Rating: P Flying Experience: 32 years 500 flights	Location Wales, GB Wind Strength: 35-40 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Moyes Litespeed Launch Type: foot	Summary While attempting to land in windy, gusty and turbulent conditions the glider dropped a wing and came down heavily from 2 - 3m.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 05.05.2012 (F10608)	Pilot male Age: 45 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 39 years 1000 flights	Location , GB Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Moyes RS Launch Type: foot	Summary Immediately after takeoff the pilot noticed the glider handling to be wrong. VB was not working properly and glider had pronounced turn. Pilot managed to fly task and land safely. Found that VB rope was wrapped around cross tube.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 02.05.2012 (F10601)	Pilot male Age: 53	Location Cornwall, GB Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Wills Wing Condor Launch Type: winch/vehicle tow	Summary Student went off line under tow and failed to correct. Glider landed heavily in a turn.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Last updated: 18 May 2026

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