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All incident reports submitted via the old pan Europe incident reporting system, that had been approved for publication prior to 21 January 2026, can be found below.

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 on our FIDA Incident reports page

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

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

Incident reports for all wing types 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.

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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 3356 entries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 20.03.2018 (E5693)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: P Flying Experience: 12 years 411 hours (61 hours) 466 flights (45 flights)	Location Llangollen, Llangollen, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Icon Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot experienced turbulence when returning to the ridge to top land. Glider suffered frontal collapse, which recovered but had turned the pilot towards the hill with little height. Glider then suffered another full collapse and the pilot crashed into pine forrest. Pilot was rescued by Mountain Rescue.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 16.03.2018 (E5696)	Pilot Male Age: 65 Rating: P Flying Experience: 23 years 500 hours (60 hours) 1500 flights (180 flights)	Location Warren, Folkestone, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Chili 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot encountered turbulence while making an approach to top land on clifftop site.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries
Date 15.03.2018 (E7580)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: None aircraft mechanic	Location Belfast, UK	Wing Type Powered PG	Summary Experienced Aircraft Mechanic completely unfamiliar with paramotoring decided to work at home on a friends paramotor. The engine was run without a safety cage but sitting on a small wood board. The engine suddenly reved up, started to lift and tilt releasing from the board. The mechanic was struck hard on the face diagonally with 2 strikes from the carbon prop that did eventually break.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Head Injuries
Date 13.03.2018 (E5595)	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 9 years 10 hours (10 hours) 10 flights (8 flights)	Location Freathy, Cornwall, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot crash landed on rocks having got low while coastal soaring. Pilot hoped to find lift where he had found it previously on the flight but did not.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 13.03.2018 (E5590)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 19 years 600 hours (6 hours) 700 flights (6 flights)	Location Bradwell, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 10 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot spun glider while thermalling. Glider stayed in deep stall possibly due to incorrect pilot input.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries
Date 11.03.2018 (E5903)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 42 years 150 hours (12 hours) 100 flights (15 flights)	Location Parlick East, Lancashire, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Rio 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and was short of official landing field. In attempting to reach an adjacent field the pilot accidentally stalled the glider due to the wind gradient.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 11.03.2018 (E5592)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 9 years	Location Parlick Pike (East), Preston/Lancashire, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Rio Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot landed short in field adjacent to landing field but was also slightly crosswind. Left hand side of control frame struck the ground first causing the pilot to swing through.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 10.03.2018 (E5593)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 47 years 4000 hours (25 hours) 4000 flights (25 flights)	Location Ringstead, Weymouth, UK Wind Strength: 30-35 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Rigid Hang Glider Wing: AIR VR+ Launch Type: Foot	Summary While coastal soaring in strong and fluctuating winds pilot found himself in sinking air with limited safe landing options. Pilot landed on rocky area but was able to avoid injury by flaring hard and landing vertically.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 26.02.2018 (E5577)	Pilot Male Age: 51 5 flights (5 flights)	Location Rabou France, Gap, France Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Paragliders Atis 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary After a successful flight and landing the student was walking backwards as the wing was pulled by the wind as it fell behind him. He turned quickly to control the wing but twisted his knee whilst doing the turn. He fell over and was dragged 2 meters over snow before he regained control on the wing.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs
Date 18.02.2018 (E5569)	Pilot Male Rating: P Flying Experience: 850 hours	Location Beachy Head, Eastbourne, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was scratching low on sea cliffs when an asymmetric collapse caused pilot to drop onto the rocks. Pilot was rescued by coastguard.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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