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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 1859 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 05.09.2026 (F19885)	Pilot male Age: 53 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 18 years 1000 flights (27 flights)	Location Long Mynd, Long Mynd, Shropshire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Moyes RX Launch Type: foot	Summary On final approach to top land, the pilot became aware of two people packing a paraglider in the hang glider landing area. The pilot manoeuvred to avoid them and the right wingtip of the hang glider contacted the ground.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 05.09.2026 (F19831)	Pilot male Age: 65 Rating: P Flying Experience: 15 years 1800 flights (91 flights)	Location Devil's Dyke, Devil's Dyke, Brighton, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Phi Maestro 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot took action to avoid a potential mid air collision in busy air, and induced a spin. The pilot took action to recover from an asymmetric collapse which followed spin recovery, and then resumed normal flight.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 02.09.2026 (F19914)	Pilot male Age: 60 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 10 years 330 flights (15 flights)	Location Organya, Organya, ES Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: U Turn Blackout Launch Type: foot	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 26.08.2026 (F19788)	Pilot male Age: 46 Rating: NA Flying Experience: 3 years 100 flights (2 flights)	Location Bournemouth beach, Bournemouth beach, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Spider 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Following a paramotor engine failure, the pilot landed heavily on an area of beach.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, lumbar spine, cervical spine, thoracic spine
Date 24.08.2026 (F19796)	Pilot male Age: 38 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 1 year 6 flights (3 flights)	Location Treak Cliffe, Treak Cliffe, Peak District, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Epic 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was soaring at Treak Cliffe when the dynamic lift weakened, prompting them to fly closer to the hillside in an attempt to maintain height. Having descended too low to reach the bottom landing field, the pilot attempted a slope landing but experienced a rapid descent while flying over an opening in the rock on the northern side of the hill. The pilot deliberately stalled the wing to avoid contact with a rock face, landing without injury but sustaining damage to their paraglider lines.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 15.08.2026 (F19771)	Pilot male Age: 68 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 46 years	Location Hundred House N/NE, Hundred House, Bluith Wells Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Wills Wing T2c Launch Type: foot	Summary A paraglider launched in close proximity to an airborne hang glider, requiring the hang glider pilot to take avoiding action.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 10.08.2026 (F19724)	Pilot male Age: 66 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 37 years 4000 flights (32 flights)	Location Heol Senni, Heol Senni, Bannau Brecheiniog, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 12 DLS Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot reported encountering sinking air on top landing approach. They induced a 90 degree turn to avoid a dry stone wall and touched down with high forward speed, where they sustained injury.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, hands, arms, shoulder
Date 09.08.2026 (F19710)	Pilot male Rating: CP	Location Green Dragons Airsports - South West Bowl, Woldingham South West Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: UP Makalu 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was on landing approach and was picked up by a thermal. A witness reported the paraglider was in a stalled state and the pilot impacted the ground hard, sustaining injury.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine
Date 08.08.2026 (F19762)	Pilot male Age: 65 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 47 years 4000 flights (12 flights)	Location Clatter, Clatter, Mid Wales, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Rigid hang glider Wing: AIR ATOS VR	Summary During a bottom landing at Clatter, Mid Wales, the pilot of a rigid hang glider selected a sloping landing field and was unable to reduce airspeed sufficiently before touchdown. Attempting to land on the glider’s skids, the pilot experienced a sudden stop, possibly after a skid caught in a rut, causing the control frame to partially collapse. The pilot sustained injuries.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, head injuries
Date 07.08.2026 (F19693)	Pilot male Age: 51 Rating: P Flying Experience: 2 years 137 flights (49 flights)	Location Burton Bradstock cliffs, Burton Bradstock Cliffs, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Phi Maestro 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot reported that when flying the cliffs at Burton Bradstock, and travelling in a westerly direction, they experienced rotor coming around a spur, and were swung into the top of the cliff. They were able to manoeuvre away from the spur and they continued with the flight to West Bay unharmed.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Last updated: 22 October 2026

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