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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 06.09.2023 (E33686)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: P Flying Experience: 26 years 1000 hours (54 hours) 1000 flights (47 flights)	Location Ager, Spain Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Very Strong, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Zeno Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot encountered turbulent air while thermalling and glider suffered full frontal resulting in a cravat spiral. Pilot was unable to regain control sp deployed emergency parachute. Pilot descended into forest canopy then fell through trees to the ground.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Lumbar Spine
Date 04.09.2023 (E32994)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 34 years 4000 hours (100 hours) 500 flights (20 flights)	Location Organya, Pyrenees, Spain Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Strong, Strong Turbulence, Leeside	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Enzo Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot flew over ridge but encountered sink and entered an area of leeside turbulence. Glider collapsed and sustained two large cravats. Glider then flew backwards and pilots vision was obscured by submarine harness tail. Pilot entered trees in a stalled state before being able to deploy parachute.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 04.09.2023 (E33682)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P Flying Experience: 21 years 900 hours (70 hours) 500 flights (30 flights)	Location Ager, Ager, Spain Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Zeno 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse in turbulent thermal that caused the wing to go 'nose down'. Pilot stopped rotation but elected to deploy emergency chute do to low altitude.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 03.09.2023 (E32514)	Pilot Male Rating: P Flying Experience: 23 years 2375 hours (95 hours)	Location Parlick west, Preston/Chipping, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Swift 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot reverse launched in strong breeze and was lifted immediately. Pilot noticed risers were twisted and decided to stall/turn the glider into the ground. Pilot was dragged before gaining control. On inspection pilot found that the left riser had clipped itself into the right carabiner. Pilot had swapped harnesses and had not screwed carabiners closed. Other harness had twist-lock carabiners.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 03.09.2023 (E33254)	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 47 years 4500 hours (50 hours) 4500 flights (30 flights)	Location Malvern Aerotow / Teal, Worcester, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Rigid Hang Glider Wing: Air Atos VR190 Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Pilot slipped on landing due to wearing trainers offering little grip.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries
Date 02.09.2023 (E32438)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: P Flying Experience: 26 years 350 hours (20 hours)	Location Blease Fell, Threlkeld, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Air Design Soar Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse on lee side of cloud. The glider spun and cravatted. Pilot deployed parachute and landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 02.09.2023 (E32482)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: P Flying Experience: 28 years 1100 hours (12 hours) (8 flights)	Location Sopot, Sopot, Bulgaria Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Explorer 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot took off with line caught on steering toggle. Pilot eventually noticed as wing tip kept collapsing and was able to land safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 31.08.2023 (E32330)	Pilot Unknown	Location N/A, Wingtrim Workshop, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: U-Turn Blackout +	Summary Inspection centre noticed extensive abrasion damage on glider in for a service. Glider had been flown extensively at Oludeniz in Turkey. Damage suspected to be from Babadag launch sites.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 28.08.2023 (E32486)	Pilot Male Age: 68 Rating: P Flying Experience: 26 years 500 hours (40 hours) 500 flights (20 flights)	Location Selsley, Stroud, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Cure	Summary Pilot noticed an odd silhouette in one cell of the wing when looking up. Pilot inspected the wing on landing and found that in one of the fabric "ribs", 4 vertical struts had torn completely through. The rib in question was not one with hang points. It was about 9 cells in from the tip.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 28.08.2023 (E32294)	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: P	Location Herne Bay, Herne Bay, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Artik Air Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot impacted cliff in light conditions and crashed into the beach.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Thoracic Spine

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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