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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 28.04.2017 (E4462)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 10 years	Location Babadag 1700 m Take Off, Oludeniz, Turkey Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot took off into a thermal and ascended rapidly and off to one side. Pilot flew out of the thermal and descended towards a rocky area. Pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 27.04.2017 (E4442)	Pilot Male Age: 68 Flying Experience: 9 years 36 flights (36 flights)	Location Bell Hill, Dorset, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Mescal 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student made a good approach to top landing but drifted towards parked cars. On attempting to control the wing on landing the student was dragged into one of the parked cars causing damage to the car.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 27.04.2017 (E4445)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 14 years 30 hours (6 hours) 54 flights (20 flights)	Location Babadag - Butterfly Valley, Oludeniz, Turkey Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot landed in the sea having failed to lose enough height on his final approach to beach landing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 27.04.2017 (E4511)	Pilot Male Age: 64 Rating: P Flying Experience: 19 years 200 hours (40 hours) 600 flights (120 flights)	Location Frocester, Gloucestershire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Glider caught wing tip on tree branch swinging glider and pilot into the slope.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 26.04.2017 (E4610)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: P Flying Experience: 12 years 70 hours (24 hours) 200 flights (35 flights)	Location White mountain, Moneyneany, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence, Rain, Snow	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Atlas Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was scratching close to the slope and did not notice a change in the wind direction. This resulted in a fast downwind leg and the pilot struck his foot on rocks in sinking air.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs
Date 23.04.2017 (E4427)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: P Flying Experience: 36 years 350 hours (7 hours) 550 flights (11 flights)	Location Sibson, West Leicestershire, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Rigid Hang Glider Wing: AIR ATOS V	Summary Pilot put new wires on Atos V glider. Pilot felt glider was not right but could not find fault. Later pilot discovered the sheathing on the new wires on one side was bunched up. It appears the locating sleeve at the bottom of the uprights has not been crimped properly to the wire and has been sliding back and forth, being retained by the plastic sheathing on previous flights.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 22.04.2017 (E4952)	Pilot Male Age: 56 Rating: P Flying Experience: 47 years 240 hours (18 hours) 300 flights (25 flights)	Location Disused Military Airfield, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Speedster 2 Launch Type: Powered Engine: Air Conception, E-Nitro	Summary Pilot suffered failed take-off in changeable light winds leading to heavy impact with tarmac take-off area. Pilot was recovering from previous muscle strain at the time.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 19.04.2017 (E4409)	Pilot Male Age: 31 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 23 years 1500 hours (12 hours) 1500 flights (4 flights)	Location Pen y Fan, Powys, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone LM6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot noticed that chest strap was undone on LHS of harness 3.5 hours into a closed circuit cross country flight. Upon noticing, pilot flew into calm air and was able to connect the harness strap. The glider had handled normally during the flight until that point. The pilot continued the flight and landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 18.04.2017 (E4482)	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 19 years 800 hours (4 hours) 600 flights (5 flights)	Location Back of Ecton, Derbyshire (nr Ashbourne), UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions:, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Peak 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot spun glider making tight turns on approach to landing.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Lumbar Spine
Date 17.04.2017 (E4395)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: P Flying Experience: 17 years 230 hours (40 hours) 250 flights (50 flights)	Location Westbury Bratton Camp, Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Cure Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot applies excessive control input while turning into wind for a landing. Pilot spun glider at low level but landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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