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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 1859 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 25.07.2015 (F11072)	Pilot male Age: 44 Rating: AP 500 flights (100 flights)	Location Liddington Castle, Liddington, near Swindon, UK Wind Strength: 30-35 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: 777Gliders Queen Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot took off into gusty, thermic conditions with the wind off the hill. Pilot sustained a collapse at low level and then stalled the glider attempting to recover from the deflation. Pilot landed heavily in parachutal stall.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), internal injuries
Date 23.07.2015 (F11067)	Pilot male Age: 28 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 14 years 55 flights (8 flights)	Location Caburn, Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Sprint Evo Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot had mid-air collision with another paraglider at low level. Both landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs Passenger: unhurt
Date 23.07.2015 (F11062)	Pilot male Age: 69	Location Milk Hill White Horse, Near Stanton St Bernard, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: UP Trango XC3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot approached for a slope landing but stalled glider too high. Landed heavily on his back.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis
Date 17.07.2015 (F11111)	Pilot male Age: 68 Rating: P Flying Experience: 23 years 1000 flights (10 flights)	Location Pen Dinas, W. Wales, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: unknown, unknown	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Geo Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot suffered collapse at 100m while coastal soaring, and was unable to regain control before hitting the ground.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine
Date 16.07.2015 (F11058)	Pilot male Rating: Unqualified 2 flights	Location High and Over, Alfriston, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Student was on his third flight on his first day of EP training. He was following Instructor on the bats and did not get legs down for landing or flare as instructed. Previous 2 flights were very successful.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 16.07.2015 (F11061)	Pilot male Age: 30 Rating: CP (4 flights)	Location Planfait, Annecy, FR Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Bolero 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary During the launch the pilot was made aware of a tangled control line by a by-stander. Before becoming airborne the pilot aborted the launch and fell heavily, causing injury to his arm.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder
Date 11.07.2015 (F11056)	Pilot male Age: 49 Rating: CP tow	Location Bradwell, Bradwell, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Airwave Calypso	Summary Unqualified pilot flew downwind and low into a gully, striking a dry stone wall.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), head injuries, hands, arms, shoulder, thorax
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 04.07.2015 (F11057)	Pilot female Age: 28 Rating: Unqualified 5 flights	Location Mount Caburn, Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Parakite/Speedflyer/Miniwing (foot-launched) Wing: Gin Gliders Bobcat Launch Type: foot	Summary Student turned off line despite radio instructions from the instructor and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), head injuries, hands, arms, shoulder
Date 03.07.2015 (F11052)	Pilot male 20 flights (1 flight)	Location Rushup Edge, Buxton, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Paragliders Fides 2 evo Launch Type: foot	Summary Slope soaring. Pilot trying to stay close to the ridge. Pilot entered some sink and did not turn away slope landed with PLF but with hands forward.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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