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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 17.09.2005 (B3977)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: CP	Location Devils Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Carbon Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Paraglider pilots suffered mid air collision and descended under one emergency chute.	Injury Pilot: Line burns to arm
Date 17.09.2005 (B3978)	Pilot Male Age: 49	Location Monks Down, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Unqualified, self-taught pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at low level in turbulent, thermic conditions.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 16.09.2005 (B3975)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: Novice	Location Currium, Cyprus Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student failed to flare properly on landing and went over on ankle.	Injury Pilot: Fr fibula
Date 11.09.2005 (B3974)	Pilot Male Age: 69 Rating: CP	Location Mam Tor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot rotored in heavily while trying to creep back over ridge.	Injury Pilot: Fr t12 vertebra
Date 10.09.2005 (B3973)	Pilot Male Rating: Novice	Location Woldingham, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: FreeX Dingo Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student jumped into seat before properly flying.	Injury Pilot: Fr leg
Date 03.09.2005 (B3972)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: P	Location Mercury, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Keara Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at low level and crashed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr l1, l2 and t5 vertebra, fr femur, fr ribs
Date 02.09.2005 (B3971)	Pilot Male Age: 32	Location Becketts Farm, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Skywalk Silex Launch Type: Powered Engine: fresh breeze	Summary Unqualified pilot crashed having stalled wing just after take off.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra
Date 01.09.2005 (B3970)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: AP	Location UK	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Concept	Summary Glider was found to have been miss-rigged after having been independently serviced.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 30.08.2005 (B3969)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: AP	Location Wind Bank, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Litespeed S 4.5 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot landed in trees having misjudged turn.	Injury Pilot: Cut leg
Date 29.08.2005 (B3968)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: CP	Location Unknown	Wing Type Unknown	Summary Serious faults to home made deployment handle discovered at equipment check prior to improvers course. Emergency chute would not have deployed.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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