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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 15.04.2007 (B4136)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: P	Location Wether Fell, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Artax Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Whilst distracted by a paraglider flying erratically, pilot then had mid-air with another paraglider.	Injury Unknown
Date 15.04.2007 (B4137)	Pilot Male Age: 26 Rating: Novice	Location Dalefoot, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student twisted ankle while attempting a reverse launch.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle
Date 14.04.2007 (B4135)	Pilot Male Rating: P	Location White Mountain, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Magic 4 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Change of wind direction forced pilot to go for bottom landing field that was in rotor. Pilot landed heavily from 50ft.	Injury Pilot: Fr arm
Date 12.04.2007 (B4132)	Pilot Male Age: 52	Location Unknown	Wing Type Unknown	Summary Repack issue. Please refer to IR.	Injury Unknown
Date 12.04.2007 (B4133)	Pilot Male Age: 56 Rating: Novice	Location Big Colin, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird N-Joy Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary On initiating a reverse launch student hesitated when turning allowing the wing to overfly him. Pulled muscle running to get under wing.	Injury Pilot: Pulled muscle in leg
Date 12.04.2007 (B4134)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: CP	Location Blorenge, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 4 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot 360d with insufficient height above ridge. Landed heavily downwind on top of ridge.	Injury Pilot: Spr ankle
Date 10.04.2007 (B4131)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: CP	Location Plaine Joux, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Zulu S Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse when entering lift. Glider entered spin/spiral and pilot hit slope before regaining control. pilot was over weight range which may have hindered recovery in this instance.	Injury Pilot: Fr femur, tib and fib
Date 09.04.2007 (B4130)	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: P	Location Bee Sands, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Grid Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot dislocated shoulder while collapsing glider after landing.	Injury Pilot: Dislo shoulder
Date 08.04.2007 (B4129)	Pilot Rating: Novice	Location Muggery, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima 27 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student sat down on landing and twisted ankle.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle
Date 07.04.2007 (B4128)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: Novice	Location Steyning Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Windtech Coral Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student was caught out by gust while preparing to launch and was dragged through nettles.	Injury Pilot: Grazes and muscle strain

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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