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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 1834 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
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
Date 15.05.2026 (F19233)	Pilot male Age: 65 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 37 years 10000 flights (64 flights)	Location Mam Tor North West, Mam Tor (NW), Hope, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Zeno 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot launched in conditions described as strong and gusty and was blown backwards towards the top of the hill. The paraglider was seen to experience a large asymmetric collapse at a height estimated to be 20-30m above the slope. The pilot fell to the ground, impacting back first. Witnesses reported that the harness was equipped with an inflatable airbag impact pad. Following the impact the wing was immobilised by other pilots, to prevent the pilot being dragged.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture)
Date 11.05.2026 (F19327)	Pilot male Rating: CP Flying Experience: 1 year	Location UK	Wing Type Wing: Ozone Angel EP / Switch harness Launch Type: foot	Summary Upon inspection by an Emergency Parachute Systems licence holder, it was revealed that the shoulder to EP bridle connections and the bridle to parachute connections had been made using sailing type softlinks, and the parachute installed incorrectly. Corrective actions were taken.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 10.05.2026 (F19198)	Pilot male Age: 57 Rating: P Flying Experience: 24 years	Location Treak Cliffe, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush 6	Summary The pilot became aware that the emergency parachute deployment handle was not secured by its deployment pins and was hanging freely in flight. Aware of the risk of inadvertent deployment the pilot landed safely as soon as possible and re-installed the pins.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 09.05.2026 (F19380)	Pilot male Age: 55 Rating: P Flying Experience: 3 years 105 flights (5 flights)	Location Sgorr Gaoithe (Cromadale Hills), Speyside/Highlands, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control), front influence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Breeze Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot sustained injuries after losing control of the paraglider and being dragged on to rocks.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), internal injuries, hands, arms, shoulder
Date 25.04.2026 (F19295)	Pilot male Age: 37 Rating: P Flying Experience: 22 years (40 flights)	Location Tribalj, Nr Rijeka, HR Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: UP Kibo X Launch Type: foot	Summary While thermalling at the Tribalj ridge near Rijeka, the pilot flew too far behind the take-off ridge, encountered sink, and was unable to return to the main ridgeline. With no safe landing options, the pilot prepared for a controlled tree landing; however, the selected branch broke, resulting in a fall of approximately 15–20 metres. The pilot was rescued by Mountain Rescue and airlifted to hospital.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs, lumbar spine, hands, arms, shoulder, internal injuries
Date 11.04.2026 (F19116)	Pilot Unknown	Location UK	Wing Type Other Wing: Ozone Hook knife	Summary Ozone Hook knife failed to cut when test carried out. The knife was brand new and had damage to the cutting edge of the blade. Issue reported to manufacturer.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 02.03.2026 (F19006)	Pilot male Age: 31 Rating: P Flying Experience: 7 years 409 flights	Location Mam Tor East, Sheffield, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions:, not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Elan 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary Upon launch in strong conditions the pilot noticed a small wingtip cravatte and inadvertently induced a parachute stall in an effort to clear the cravatte. They allowed the wing to regain airspeed and resumed normal flight. The pilot identified an imperfect layout on launch, and cited a perceived need to correct the cravatte as soon as possible, and overcontrol, as contributory factors.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Last updated: 16 September 2026

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