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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 18.06.2005 (B3928)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: CP	Location Rushup Edge, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Calypso Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Tow rated pilot got into difficulties when attempting to ridge soar having hill launched. Pilot landed heavily behind trees.	Injury Pilot: Bruising
Date 17.06.2005 (B3926)	Pilot Male Age: 42	Location Luffenham, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Parascender Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary Tow vehicle driver crashed into rubble mound hidden by long grass on tow field.	Injury Pilot: Grazing to arm and back
Date 15.06.2005 (B3925)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: CP	Location Plaine Joux, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Target 16 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary It is believed that the pilot clipped a tree in light conditions and fell 15m to the ground. The pilot was wearing a cycle helmet which contributed sighnificantly to the seriousness of the head injuries!.	Injury Pilot: Fr skull, fr ribs
Date 10.06.2005 (B3923)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: Novice	Location Green Bell, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student landed heavily on uneven ground fracturing leg.	Injury Pilot: Fr leg
Date 10.06.2005 (B3924)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: CP	Location Butser, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Z One Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged wind strength/gradient and got blown back into rotor.	Injury Pilot: Fr l1 vertebra
Date 09.06.2005 (B3922)	Pilot Male Age: 65 Rating: CP	Location Forclaz, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mamboo Large Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at 15m on final approach due to turbulence.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertabrae and ribs
Date 08.06.2005 (B3921)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: P	Location Unknown	Wing Type Wing: Windtech Pulsar	Summary Pilot noticed that the line tidys were causing the risers to fray slightly.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 07.06.2005 (B3920)	Pilot Male Rating: Novice	Location Steyning Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Trekking Sunbeam Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student did not flare on landing and glider over-flew, pulling student over.	Injury Pilot: Fr tibia
Date 06.06.2005 (B3918)	Pilot Male Age: 34 Rating: CP	Location Annecy, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Rio Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot had to land in emergency field having left it too late to make official field. Glider nosed in in long grass as pilot could not locate harness zip and had to land on wheels.	Injury Pilot: Bruised ribs
Date 06.06.2005 (B3919)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location Col De Forclaz, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Rio Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot was crashed into by out of control paraglider pilot while waiting on ramp to take off.	Injury Pilot: Gashed leg, bruised shoulder

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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