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Once passed for publication, all new incident reports submitted via the FIDA pan Europe incident reporting system will be made available on this page.

In the meantime all the 2025/6 reports submitted via the Euro system, and passed for publication before it was shut down, can be found below. Reports submitted via the earlier BHPA online reporting system can also be found below.

This page will slowly include the remaining incident report submitted via the old Euro system.

Unfortunately, whilst all of these reports were successfully imported into the FIDA database by our German colleagues, they failed to include the status of the "publish" field which determines if a report can appear on our website.

As a result around 1,400 old Euro reports have to be reviewed and cross checked before they can be included here. This is a painfully slow process, and is likely to take some time to complete.

All incident reports submitted via the old Euro system, and approved for publication, are however available on our Incident Reports Archive page

Summaries of published incident reports are available for the following wing types:

• All Wing Types
• Paraglider
• Flexwing Hang Glider
• Rigid Hang Glider
• Speedrider
• Speedflyer/Miniwing
• Powered PG
• Powered HG
• Other

You can also search the BHPA incident reports database by incident date, pilot, location, wing type, etc. For example, if you want to search for paraglider incidents at Hay Bluff, select paraglider from the drop down list, and enter Hay Bluff in the search box with the "or" option selected.

To search by incident date, please enter the day, month and year numerically as dd-mm-yyyy (eg. 03-12-2019).

All Wing Types Paraglider Flexwing Hang Glider Rigid Hang Glider Speedrider Speedflyer/Miniwing Powered PG Powered HG Other

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If known, total flights flown and flights flown in the past six months are displayed below, the latter being displayed in brackets.

There are 1715 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 12.05.2012 (F10613)	Pilot male Age: 46 65 flights	Location Bradwell Edge, Deryshire, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Airwave Pulse 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary Student made approach to top landing but was too high. Made approach to alternate landing field but stalled one wing and landed heavily. Did not let go of uprights.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder
Date 12.05.2012 (F10611)	Pilot male Age: 34	Location Firle, Brighton, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions:, not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Bolero 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Student landed cross wind with leg outstretched.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 08.05.2012 (F10610)	Pilot male Age: 49 Rating: P Flying Experience: 32 years 500 flights	Location Merthyr, Wales, UK Wind Strength: 35-40 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Moyes Litespeed Launch Type: foot	Summary While attempting to land in windy, gusty and turbulent conditions the glider dropped a wing and came down heavily from 2 - 3m.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder
Date 08.05.2012 (F10609)	Pilot male Age: 21	Location Hack, Bavaria, DE Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Independence Cruiser Launch Type: foot	Summary Glider launched asymmetrically pulling student to one side. Student tripped and fell attempting to get under canopy.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, feet, legs
Date 05.05.2012 (F10608)	Pilot male Age: 45 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 39 years 1000 flights	Location Malvern, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Moyes RS Launch Type: foot	Summary Immediately after takeoff the pilot noticed the glider handling to be wrong. VB was not working properly and glider had pronounced turn. Pilot managed to fly task and land safely. Found that VB rope was wrapped around cross tube.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 04.05.2012 (F10607)	Pilot male Age: 33 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 45 years 1050 flights	Location Pontlottyn, Wales, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Rigid hang glider Wing: AIR Atos N Launch Type: foot	Summary While on a soaring flight the pilot heard a noise and noticed one of the side wires had come off. The glider stabilised and he was able to grab the wire and hold it in place. Pilot landed safely. Pip pin not correctly inserted.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 03.05.2012 (F10606)	Pilot male Age: 68 Flying Experience: 40 years	Location Soldeu, AD Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions:, light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Paratech P11 Light Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot was not concentrating and misjudged landing approach hitting wall with leg.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 02.05.2012 (F10601)	Pilot male Age: 53	Location Hell's Mouth tow site, Cornwall, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Wills Wing Condor Launch Type: winch/vehicle tow	Summary Student went off line under tow and failed to correct. Glider landed heavily in a turn.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder
Date 16.04.2012 (F10605)	Pilot male Age: 43 Rating: P Flying Experience: 21 years 100 flights	Location Wigginton, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Paramania Revolution Launch Type: powered	Summary Pilot launched and powered up to 5m when engine cut out. Pilot landed heavily. Air in fuel suspected.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 15.04.2012 (F10598)	Pilot male Age: 56 Rating: P	Location Codden, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Artik 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot lost control in thermic and gusty conditions.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs, lumbar spine, thorax

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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