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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 16.06.2004 (B3817)	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: CP	Location Dungiven, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Oasis	Summary Pilot landed and noticed that the shackle connecting his A lines to the riser was undone and 3 lines were free. He had not carried out a pre-flight check prior to the flight.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 14.06.2004 (B3816)	Pilot Male Age: 31 Rating: AP	Location Douelle, France Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Talon Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary During competition with pilots queuing behind, pilot went for launch but wings were not level. Wing tip touched ground on take off causing glider to turn sharply crash landing in trees.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 13.06.2004 (B3813)	Pilot Female Age: 41 Rating: Novice	Location Kimmeridge, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Fides Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student launched glider asymmetrically and was pulled over and dragged for approx 6m causing damage to shoulder.	Injury Pilot: Fr shoulder
Date 13.06.2004 (B3814)	Pilot Unknown	Location By River Yarty, UK Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Action 29 Launch Type: Powered Engine: cyclone	Summary Pilot landed seated and cross wind. Pilot uninjured but prop smashed and fuel tank split. Possible damage to wing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 13.06.2004 (B3815)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location Woolacombe, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Electron Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary At 10m and on finals, pilot encountered severe sink and landed very heavily.	Injury Pilot: Compressed vertebra, nerve and tissue damage
Date 12.06.2004 (B3812)	Pilot Male Age: 56 Rating: CP	Location Hay Bluff, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave K4 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot caught base bar on gorse bush on landing approach.	Injury Pilot: Fr arm
Date 06.06.2004 (B3810)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: CP	Location Kimiridge, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Xact Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot chose to take off from unsuitable area below the normal take off. He stood in rabbit hole on inflating the glider causing him to stumble and be dragged before regaining control of the glider.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated ankle, fr leg
Date 06.06.2004 (B3811)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: CP	Location Bewaldeth, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Ariel Arts Clubman 160 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot decided to land and put glider in steep turn to lose height. Glider entered a tumble and impacted heavily.	Injury Pilot: 10 fr ribs, punctured lung.
Date 05.06.2004 (B3808)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: Novice	Location Strines, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Black Magic Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student landed awkwardly having completed forward launch practice.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle
Date 05.06.2004 (B3809)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: CP	Location Bell Hill, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Z One Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Emergency chute deployed accidentally on approach for slope landing. Pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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