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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.

If you want 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 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 29.07.2007 (B4187)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: AP	Location Lletty Siac, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Omega 7 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered frontal collapse at 50ft on approach to land. Glider did not recover and instead completely balled up in a stall.	Injury Pilot: Fr t12 & l1 vertebrae
Date 23.07.2007 (B4186)	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: CP	Location Ballough Iom, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Hang Glider Rigid Wing: Atos Basic Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr arm
Date 18.07.2007 (B4185)	Pilot Male Rating: Novice	Location Muggery, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student twisted knee on landing having carried out a good and gentle landing.	Injury Pilot: Damaged knee ligaments
Date 17.07.2007 (B4184)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location Chabre, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Independence Merlin Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot turned wrong way on reverse launch and went off with a twist. Pilot crashed into slope before regaining control using outstretched arm to break fall rather than plf.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist, fr fingers
Date 15.07.2007 (B4182)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: P	Location Gragareth, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Cayenne 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot was forced into path of third glider resulting in a mid-air, having taken avoiding action to miss another flying head on.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 15.07.2007 (B4183)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: Novice	Location Lama Field, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima 27 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student stumbled while kiting glider.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist, fr rib
Date 12.07.2007 (B4181)	Pilot Male Age: 64 Rating: Novice	Location Myhophen, Austria Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Swing Arcus 4 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Unqualified pilot spun into trees while attempting to thermal.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 08.07.2007 (B4178)	Pilot Male	Location UK	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary AAIB investigating.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.
Date 08.07.2007 (B4179)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: CP	Location Pule, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Carbon Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Wing inflated fully unintentionally while pilot was building wall. Pilot was then dragged into rocks.	Injury Pilot: Fr ribs
Date 08.07.2007 (B4180)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: FLPA	Location Wormley Hill, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Swing Arcus 4 Launch Type: Powered Engine: PAP, Top 80 1250	Summary Pilot had difficulty getting into seat due to slack leg straps. Pilot released one brake to assist but forgot to park brake first. Brake handle hit prop but bounced off and pilot landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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