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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 1757 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 14.10.2016 (F11267)	Pilot male Age: 48 Rating: P Flying Experience: 30 years	Location 360, Bir, IN Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Bruce Goldsmith Design Tala Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot suffered an asymmetric collapse at low level while thermalling. Pilot was unable to regain control of the glider and deployed his emergency parachute. Parachute had insufficient height to deploy fully and pilot impacted rocks.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), head injuries
Date 22.06.2016 (F11194)	Pilot male Age: 55 Rating: AP	Location Chabre,, 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 18.06.2016 (F11192)	Pilot male Age: 42 Flying Experience: 14 years	Location Devils Dyke, near Brighton, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot lost control of glider at low level and impacted heavily sustaining fatal injuries.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), head injuries, feet, legs
Date 22.03.2016 (F11196)	Pilot male Age: 42 Rating: P Flying Experience: 27 years	Location Selsey, Chichester, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Hadron xx Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot suffered a collapse at low level.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), internal injuries
Date 18.09.2015 (F11126)	Pilot male Age: 38 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 17 years	Location Fleetwith Pike, Lake District, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Delta 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot lost control of paraglider while in close proximity to fellside, while on cross country flight.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), head injuries, internal injuries, thorax
Date 31.07.2015 (F11069)	Pilot male Age: 50 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 16 years	Location Edge Top, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Carrera Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot suffered an asymmetric collapse at low level and impacted heavily.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident)
Date 07.07.2015 (F11120)	Pilot male Age: 50 Rating: Pilot (Power)	Location Siurana Alt Emporda 17469, Siurana/Girona, ES Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Slalom Launch Type: foot	Summary A paramotor pilot was critically injured upon impact with the ground, and died from his injuries. There were no witnesses to the flight or the impact.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), internal injuries
Date 21.05.2015 (F11026)	Pilot male Age: 45 Rating: CFI Flying Experience: 30 years	Location Newgale, Pemebrokeshire, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: unknown, light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 7 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot encountered turbulence while approaching for a top landing. The glider suffered an asymmetric collapse at low level. The pilot landed on his back and the passenger landed on the pilot.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine Passenger: minor injuries
Date 21.05.2015 (F11059)	Pilot male Age: 45 Rating: P Flying Experience: 28 years (40 flights)	Location newgale, haverfordwest, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 7 Launch Type: foot	Summary Tandem pilot suffered asymmetric, then frontal collapse on approach to top landing. Pilot landed on his back and the passenger landed on the pilot.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine Passenger: minor injuries
Date 21.05.2015 (F11027)	Pilot male Age: 42 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 37 years (14 flights)	Location Worcester Beacon West, Great Malvern, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Omega 8 Launch Type: foot	Summary While climbing out in gusty, turbulent conditions, pilot suffered an symmetric collapse and then cravat. The glider entered a rotation and twisted. The pilot was able to correct the twisting but not the cravat and high descent rate and so deployed his parachute. Pilot drifted over spine back ridge and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis

Last updated: 24 August 2026

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