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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 14.08.2004 (B3849)	Pilot Male Rating: Novice	Location Steyning Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Student bruised shoulder while attempting a PLF, though told only to watch and wait at this point.	Injury Pilot: Bruised shoulder
Date 10.08.2004 (B3846)	Pilot Female Age: 48 Rating: CP	Location Mere Rifle Range, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Exact Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot encountered turbulence and landed heavily wearing trainers and carrying ballast.	Injury Pilot: Fr foot
Date 08.08.2004 (B3845)	Pilot Male Age: 30 Rating: AP	Location Puncho, France Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Ls4 S Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot stalled having pushed out to miss trees on landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr collar bone, shoulder and ribs
Date 07.08.2004 (B3844)	Pilot Male Age: 31 Rating: AP	Location Kip Hill, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Avax Rs Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot had mid air while thermalling in competition. Some damage to other pilots wing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 06.08.2004 (B3843)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: Novice	Location Compton Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Reggae Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student tripped on take off and fell heavily on arm.	Injury Pilot: Fr arm
Date 05.08.2004 (B3842)	Pilot Female Age: 16 Rating: Novice	Location Lincon Showground, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Parascender Wing: Sportlite Paracommander Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary Pilot landed heavily after weak link broke during tow.	Injury Pilot: Bruised head
Date 04.08.2004 (B3840)	Pilot Male Age: 34 Rating: P	Location Mynydd Meio, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse from turbulence from another glider. Landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Minor bruising and scrapes
Date 04.08.2004 (B3841)	Pilot Female Age: 46 Rating: Novice	Location Lincon Showground, UK	Wing Type Parascender Wing: Sportlite Paracommander Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary Pilot tripped on landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr tib fib
Date 03.08.2004 (B3839)	Pilot Male Age: 77 Rating: P	Location Ringstead, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Grid Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot flew into hill having failed to notice that the wind had shifted to a direction too far off the hill to provide much lift.	Injury Pilot: Fr spine
Date 02.08.2004 (B3838)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: CP	Location Mam Tor, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Bright Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Low airtime pilot caught out by windy conditions pulled big ears having already applied full speed bar! Resulted in full frontal collapse and subsequant cascade sequence until impact.	Injury Pilot: Bruised ribs

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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