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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).

All Wing Types Paraglider Flexwing Hang Glider Rigid Hang Glider Speedrider Speedflyer/Miniwing Powered PG Powered HG Other

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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 1719 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 05.07.2026 (F19521)	Pilot male Age: 40 Rating: P Flying Experience: 1 year 147 flights (100 flights)	Location East Hill, Devon Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Wing: Air Design Volt 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot took off without first centring themselves beneath their paraglider, resulting in a pendulum-like swing and a subsequent tree landing.	Injury Unknown
Date 04.07.2026 (F19536)	Pilot male Age: 57 Rating: P Flying Experience: 2 years 130 flights (50 flights)	Location Mont Lambert, Mont Lambert, FR Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Chili 5 Launch Type: foot	Summary Immediately after take-off, the pilot experienced an asymmetric collapse in a strong thermal, followed by increasingly aggressive right rolling, diving turns, and several small right tip tucks. The pilot landed safely and subsequently discovered that three lines in the right outer A-riser cascade had severed. The damage had not been identified during the daily inspection. The pilot reported that the French repair centre considered the damage consistent with stresses associated with SIV training, of which the pilot had completed 15 sorties during the preceding 10 months.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 24.06.2026 (F19466)	Pilot male Age: 64 Rating: P Flying Experience: 33 years 2500 flights (44 flights)	Location Krushevo (North Macedonia), Krushevo, MK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Tau DLS Launch Type: foot	Summary During the first flight of a new Advance Tau DLS 23, the pilot identified that the left control line had been incorrectly routed between two B-lines during manufacture, causing it to rub against and abrade another line when the control was applied. The pilot landed safely, and then inspected the wing with an instructor, who confirmed the incorrect routing. The brake handle was removed, the line was rerouted correctly, and the wing was rechecked before further use.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 22.06.2026 (F19411)	Pilot male Rating: CP Flying Experience: 2 years	Location Semer Water, Hawes, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gingo Airlite 4 PG harness Launch Type: foot	Summary During coaching activity, the coach and pilot became aware that the paraglider harness shoulder strap had failed. Upon inspection it was revealed that significant corrosion had occurred to the aluminium buckle at the shoulder, and it had catastrophically failed. The buckle was shrouded with a neoprene cover.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 20.06.2026 (F19408)	Pilot male Age: 67 Rating: P Flying Experience: 13 years 996 flights (39 flights)	Location Long Mynd, Church Stretton, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Base 2 Lite Launch Type: foot	Summary The paraglider pilot made an approach to land from a southerly direction and inadvertently induced a spin when turning the paraglider into wind. The pilot landed on their back, falling approximately three metres.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries
Date 20.06.2026 (F19393)	Pilot male Age: 29 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 2 years 30 flights (30 flights)	Location Home setup, Renfrew, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Range X-Alps 3 harness Launch Type: foot	Summary During a hang check prior to first use of this paraglider harness, the stitching of the load-bearing seat connection straps failed under the pilot's bodyweight. The manufacturer and dealer have been notified.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 14.06.2026 (F19381)	Pilot male Age: 57 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 36 years 2450 flights (40 flights)	Location Creag Ruadh, Highlands, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), very strong turbulence (unable to maintain control, even with constant pilot action)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mantra M7 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot experienced a departure from normal flight in turbulent air and successfully deployed their emergency parachute. The pilot was aware that the paraglider was causing a downplane effect which significantly increased their sink rate under the emergency parachute. They elected to detach the paraglider by cutting its lines. This was carried out and the pilot landed successfully under the emergency parachute.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 29.05.2026 (F19300)	Pilot female Age: 51 Rating: Ippi 5 Flying Experience: 4 years 300 flights (2 flights)	Location Malvern West Beacon, Malvern, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Ikuma 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot launched in a west-southwesterly wind and did not detect that the wind direction had changed to west-northwest when they chose to top land. As a result they made a fast landing approach and impacted a rock which caused injury.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, feet, legs
Date 25.05.2026 (F19421)	Pilot male Rating: CP Flying Experience: 3 years 100 flights (15 flights)	Location Dungiven NW and Dungiven W, Northern Ireland, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions:, light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Theta ULS Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot landed heavily in changing conditions, and sustained injury.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, feet, legs
Date 23.05.2026 (F19455)	Pilot male Age: 69 Rating: P Flying Experience: 48 years 794 flights (7 flights)	Location Sutton Meadows airfield, Cambridgeshire, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control), dustdevil	Wing Type Rigid hang glider Wing: La Mouette Top Secret Launch Type: aero tow	Summary During an aerotow trolley launch, as the pilot was about to release from the trolley handles, a sharp vertical movement of the trolley/glider/pilot was detected. The trolley was then released half a second later and the flight continued without further issue. Subsequent examination of the trolley showed that the left front wheel vertical spindle (that allows the wheel to turn left to right) had bent backwards, so that the left wheel tyre was significantly closer to the frame of the trolley than its normal 30mm clearance.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Last updated: 20 July 2026

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